UAE's ALEC wins $1.2bn Dubai Airport contract

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL: ALEC to build concourse after cancellation of previous deal. (Getty Images)

UAE contractor ALEC has been awarded a AED4.3bn ($1.17bn) contract to build a concourse at Dubai International Airport, the Dubai Aviation City Corporation said on Tuesday.

The Dubai Department of Civil Aviation initially awarded the contract to the Al Habtoor Murray & Roberts Takenaka Joint Venture last December.

But earlier this month, the consortium - which included Al Habtoor Leighton, an affiliate of Australia's Leighton Holdings, and South Africa's biggest construction firm Murray & Roberts - withdrew from the project, citing the parties' "inability to conclude an acceptable contract".

The main contract package had now been awarded to ALEC, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-based Al Jaber Group, the DACC, the holding company for Dubai's aviation entities, said.

The concourse would increase passenger handling capacity at Dubai International Airport to 68 million a year, DACC said.

Concourse 3 will be solely dedicated to Emirates airline operations, with 18 out of 20 gates designed to accommodate the carrier's Airbus A380 double-decker aircraft, the DACC said.

Emirates has ordered 58 of the A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft from Airbus, the plane making unit of European aerospace group EADS. (Reuters)

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