20110420 - Afran Kenya

Kenya Airports Authority has unveiled araft of investment opportunities at Kisumu Airport.

These oportunities range from provision of aviation fuel and associated support services, provision of ground handling services as well as development and management of an automated car park centre.

Other opportunities include management of a garden restaurant, snack shops, a coffee-tea lounge, a duty free shop and bookshop.

Interested firms are buying tender documents at the KAA headquarters in Nairobi or at te Kisumu Airport. Airport Manager Joseph Okumu urged investors to take advantage of the business opportunities ceated with the airport's expansion.

The tender process, he said, is a manifestation that the expansion of the airport to international standards is on course. The scope of the work, set to cost of Kshs. 3 billion, includes rehabilitation and extension of the runway, taxiway and apron.

A new terminal building will handle 700 people per hour - about two million a year once the expansion is done. Large aircraft like the Boeing 737 and B767 will also be able to land at Kenya's third busiest airport.