A $1bn project: Tashkent's new international airport to be built jointly with a Singaporean company

Uzbekistan Airports and Changi Airports International signed a strategic partnership agreement on the eve of the state visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Singapore. The press service of Uzbekistan Airports reported.

The document envisages joint implementation of the project of the new international airport in Tashkent, including enhancement of competitiveness and quality of passenger services, introduction of advanced information technologies, increase of passenger traffic, including transit traffic, and attraction of new airlines.

"We are glad the interest to the project of new capital`s airport by the company, which created one of the best airports of the world, one of the biggest international hubs. Exactly such a concept can be realized in our country too, taking into account that Tashkent has a favorable geographic position.

Besides, Changi means technology, this experience in airport operations, this global recognition. We will be honored to work with such a partner," Rano Dzhuraeva, chairman of Uzbekistan Airports, commented.

It is noted that in the first phase (6 months) under the agreement it is planned to jointly develop a feasibility study of the project with the possible involvement of Changi Airports International as a private partner on a public-private partnership project in the future. The total value of the project is planned to be up to $1 billion.

For information: Changi Airport is an international airport, one of the air hubs in Asia and Singapore's only airport. Since its opening in 1981, the airport has set an example in the aviation industry, winning more than 280 awards over a twenty-year period from 1987 to 2007. In 2019, Singapore's Changi Airport recorded 68.3 million passengers, making it the 7th busiest airport in the world in terms of international passengers.