Dubai: A UAE-South African-Japanese consortium led by Al Habtoor Engineering has been awarded a Dh4.9 billion contract to build Concourse 3, the final package of the Dh15 billion ($4.1 billion) expansion of the Dubai International Airport.
Concourse 3 forms part of the Dh9.1 billion ($2.5 billion) Terminal 3, Concourse 2 and Concourse 3 package, the largest component of the Dubai International Airport's master plan announced by Dubai Government.
Once complete, the airport will have three terminals and three concourses - together catering to 70 million passengers per year, and will help support the growth in Dubai's air traffic.
Terminal 1/Concourse 1 (the Shaikh Rashid Terminal) is equipped to handle 21 million passengers, while Terminal 2 can handle 6 million passengers per year. As per the government's master plan, Terminal 3/Concourses 2 and 3 together will handle 43 million passengers per year, when completed.
