Who will manage Montenegrin airports for the next 30 years? – Region

South Korean Company Incheon International Airport (IIAC), which manages the main airport in South Korea, and the US Corporation America Airports (CAAP), the world’s largest private operator, reported to the Concession of Montenegro Airport Concession, which has been announced in 2019.

The French-Turkish Consortium of Aeroports de Paris (TAV) has given up that the Government of Montenegro, 30 days before the submission of the bid, inserted the obligation to offer an immediate payment of 100m euros. In addition, conditions are a compensation of at least ten percent of annual revenues, investments of at least 80 million euros during the first three years, and at least 200 million during the total thirty years of concession.

What is offered?

According to information from the Tender Commission, and after the opening of financial bids, South Korean IIAC offers a hundred and 35 percent of annual income as a variable concession fee, and the Luxembourg-American CSSO 101 million fixed fees and some over 17 percent of annual income as a variable fee. These others would also invest 319 million euros in the reconstruction of the airport in Podgorica and Tivat, which is 63 million more than the South Korean company, and the works would begin nine months earlier, in March 2026.

Luxembourg The company plans to establish a base for low-budget airlines at both airports – three in Podgorica and two in Tivat. On the other hand, the Korean bidder wants to reduce their presence and redirect them at the airport in Dubrovnik and Tirana. South Korean company is state-owned. American-Luxembourga has 53 airports in Latin America and Europe, which are crucial in Argentina, Brazil, Italy and Armenia.

Is the concessionaire in general?

While Employees in Montenegro are waiting for the Government of the Concession, Executive Director of the company, Roko Tolić, says that they will never be, and that these years are expected by record three million passengers this year. At the same time, the airports are, he says, ready to accept serious argumentation that would offer rapid infrastructure development.

« In the first five months of this year, we are surpassing the record 2024. And I will emphasize this, because we have never had any more passengers in aviation than last year. We have an ambition for the first time, » Tolic says for the first time, « says Tolic.

This is one of the key reasons why economic analyst Milos Vukovic, the giving in the Concession of Montenegro’s airport is evaluated as the issuance of national interests. « Shepherd in Poljana is not about trying to conclude a good job here, but about the proloering of the national treasure in afraid. Translated by the profit that already makes now, which can only grow, » Vukovic states.

The opposition is seeking an end to the procedure

Boris Mugoša, the Prophet of Opposition Social Democrats, which was prevailing in the authorities in 2020. He says that his position is the same as in 2019. proposed concession act, claims, is not normative shortcomings.

« Everything that happens around the specified tender (abandonment of the members of the Tender Commission, the meeting of the majority of the Tender Commission, the extension of the decision-making periods and the independence of the government and on the ‘naked’ army interests of the tailored parliamentary majority, » says Mugosa for DW.

And concludes: « This process should be discontinued, because it is a strategic extremely important resource of Montenegro on whose valorization model, much more serious discussion must be taken in a very important moment in the EU integration process, in which there is no place to improvisations. »

The airports of Montenegro last year served around two million and 800,000 passengers. During the season in Podgorica, 45 will be active, and in Tivat about 50 lines. At the same time, the urgent investments in infrastructure and equipment are necessary on both airports.

The government has repeatedly said that, if the tender for the concession of Montenegro’s airport decay, the state itself addressed their development, because it is one of the most important resources of the country.