CONSTRUCTION OF the new Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) terminal is 96% complete, the project proponent announced on Thursday. GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corp. (GMCAC), the consortium of Megawide Construction Corp. and Bangalore-based GMR Infrastructure Ltd., had officially begun the countdown to the launch of the new terminal in MCIA, three months from its scheduled commissioning in June.

“As of February, the construction of the new terminal is at 96% completion and we are all excited to count the days until we open Terminal 2 (T2) to the traveling public,” GMCAC President Manuel Louie B. Ferrer said in a statement. Megawide-GMR won in 2014 the 25-year public-private partnership (PPP) contract to build, operate and maintain the new MCIA terminal for about P17.52 billion. In June last year, the Megawide-GMR consortium submitted a P208-billion unsolicited proposal for the 50-year long-term development of MCIA. The consortium also bagged the contract for the construction of the Clark International Airport (CIA) new terminal project and has submitted a proposal to rehabilitate the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. — Patrizia Paola C. Marcelo

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