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Riga Airport Calls on Investors to Engage in the Development of RIX Cargo City
To create
the complex, the Airport offers investors an opportunity to acquire building
rights for 30 years to a plot of land in an area of 1.5 hectares in the
northern part of the Airport territory, where the Airport is developing a
specialized air cargo handling area or RIX
Cargo City.
According
to the tender terms of reference, the investor will have to build an air cargo
handling and logistics centre with an area of no less than 4 000 square
metres and related infrastructure, providing handling of no less than 5 000
tonnes of cargo per year. However, the capacity of the plot also allows for a larger
area of construction of up to 9 000 square metres.
The Airport
invites experienced investors to participate in the tender – the tenderer or its partners must be
air cargo companies with at least three years of continuous experience in the
air cargo handling business in the last five years, ensuring at least 5 000 tonnes
of air cargo turnover per year.
“The development of the air cargo
segment has been set by Riga Airport as one of its strategic goals. Riga, as
the largest air cargo hub in the Baltic region, already offers multi-modal
logistics solutions, high-quality service and a favourable cooperation platform.
In order to make Riga Airport even more attractive to investors and cargo
carriers, in recent years the Airport has made extensive investments in the
development of modern and sustainable cargo handling infrastructure,” says Laila Odiņa, Chairperson of the
Board of Riga Airport.
The plot of
land offered to investors is located next to the Airport's new cargo handling
apron, which launched its operations this October. The new apron covers an area
of 95 000 square metres and is directly connected to RIX Cargo City area. Apron’s multi-functional aircraft stands allow flexible planning of aircraft
layout and accommodation of even the largest class F and E aircraft, while the
underground refuelling hydrant system enables a significant increase in
aircraft refuelling capacity and thus service speed, as well as promotes reduction
of the risk of environmental pollution.
DHL regional parcel handling complex, the
construction of which started this year, will launch its operation in the
territory of RIX Cargo City next year.
It is
planned that the total cargo handling capacity of RIX Cargo City will exceed 60 000 tonnes per year, allowing
Riga Airport to double the turnover of serviced cargo in the coming years.
The volume
of air cargo transportation in Latvia consists of four business lines: export
and import of high value-added goods, mail and e-commerce, air cargo transit
and non-military cargo transit to Afghanistan for the needs of the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The involvement of SJSC "Latvijas pasts” in the global e-commerce parcel
transportation segment in cooperation with the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and the Post of Russia, also
contributes to the development of a successful logistics solution as a result
of which, unscheduled cargo charter flights from China are operated to Riga
since 2017.
Currently, cargo
carriage at Riga Airport is provided by seven airlines: cargo carriers Atlas Air, Atran, Eleron and RAF Avia, as well as courier companies Fedex, UPS and DHL.
Last year, 27.2
thousand tonnes of cargo were handled at Riga Airport, whereas in the first ten
months of this year – more than 18 thousand tonnes. The
cargo turnover of Riga Airport accounts for more than a half of the total cargo
turnover in the Baltic States.
Proposals
for the tender should be submitted to the Airport by 14 January 2021. To
receive the tender terms of reference please send a request electronically to
the following e-mail address: [email protected].
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