Kuwait plans to choose a winning bid in the first quarter of this year from among 18 foreign companies competing to build a new airport.
The airport is expected to cost around $3.2bn and to be open by 2020.
Planners aim for it to serve as a regional hub.
The target is to get 25 million passengers passing through the new airport each year, Faisal al-Ustaith, a director at the Ministry of Public Works, told Reuters. Kuwait’s current capacity is around seven million annually.
Several of the bidding companies may join together to form a consortium that gets the winning bid, he said, adding that the bidders were all foreign companies.
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The target is to get 25 million passengers passing through the new airport each year