It didn’t take off further than the foundation: the Voronezh airport terminal is on the “stop”
Roman Trotsenko’s Novaport holding is in no hurry to fulfill its obligations to build a new terminal at Voronezh Airport, referring to the changed economic conditions.
According to the correspondent MorningNewsthe Novaport holding of the oligarch Roman Trotsenko, which manages the international airport of Voronezh named after Peter I, announced a “freeze” in the construction of a new passenger terminal of the air harbor.
The customer and contractor of the project worth 5.5 billion rubles is the Turkish construction group Limak Marash. This was reported by Kommersant.
Construction work began in December 2020, they were supposed to last 18 months. According to the project, the area of the building should be 13.68 thousand square meters. m. The total building area is 6 thousand square meters. m. They planned to build a three-story building with a basement, two teleports and solar panels. After the completion of the project, the complex would be able to serve more than 2 million passengers a year.
All we have done is lay the foundation. Construction is expected to resume within eight months. Perhaps then the prospects for the Russian air transportation market will become clear. So far, there has been a general decrease in passenger traffic, soaring prices for building materials and an increase in rates for investment projects.
The Limak Marash Group is already conducting “preliminary calculations of the price increase limits”. According to experts, the price may increase by less than 20%.
As for state support, the prospects are blurred here. Closed airports receive support from the federal budget. However, they are unlikely to help build new ones.
Despite the current situation, the Novaport holding said that the construction of the terminal remains active and there is no talk of abandoning the project.
According to the head of the department of industry and transport of the Voronezh region, Alexander Desyatirikov, who oversees the development of the airport, the current situation is just temporary difficulties. He also added that no one will abandon the project, now there are cost adjustments. In addition, the authorities still believe that they will manage to build the airport within the previously announced time frame.
Novaport showed itself well in the construction of the Novosibirsk Tolmachevo airport, the project was handed over earlier.
Recall that the holding manages 21 airports, is part of the AEON corporation, which was founded in 2007 by Roman Trotsenko. As Forbes reported, in addition to Russian, the corporation consists of Kazakh, Ukrainian, German and Dutch divisions.
By the way, there are rumors that allegedly many of them could have gone to Novaport under very strange, to say the least, circumstances. One of the latest examples is the right obtained by Novaport to modernize and manage the airport in Irkutsk, where it outperformed such serious competitors as Viktor Vekselberg’s Airports of the Regions and Oleg Deripaska’s Basel Aero.
Rumor has it that Roman Trotsenko, through his people, could simply agree with the former governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Levchenko. Let it be just rumors, but in the end, the anti-monopolists demanded to break the agreement on the modernization of the airport with Trotsenko’s structures. The reason was the lack of competitive procedures, RBC wrote about this.
As a result, Novaport did not get the asset, but something else is strange. As Interfax wrote, a little later, the Federal Antimonopoly Service suspected the Novaport and AEON structures of obstructing an inspection during the investigation of a case of violation of antimonopoly law during the construction of a new Irkutsk airport terminal.
In the context of information about the airport in Voronezh, it would be nice for our brave control and supervisory authorities to turn their eyes there too – but did the oligarch’s management company honestly get another transport asset under management?
