Africa-Press – Angola. The first president of the Senegalese Court of Auditors, Mamadou Faye, highlighted this Wednesday, in Luanda, the facilities of the new international airport, hoping that it will contribute to the development of the economy and facilitating the free movement of people and goods.
Mamadou Faye, who is on a working visit to Angola, as president of the African Higher Control Institutions (AFROSAI), from the 12th to the 16th of the current month, also hopes that this infrastructure will serve as a lever for the progress of relations with the Senegal, in the most varied domains.
To the press, at the end of a visit to the new airport, the presiding judge of Senegal said that the location and size demonstrate the importance that Angola attaches to airport installations.
For him, this airport will be part of the four largest in Africa, suggesting the possibility of reaching the number of 15 million passengers per year.
On the visit to the airport, judge Mamadou Faye was accompanied by the president of the Court of Auditors (TC) of Angola, Exalgina Gambôa, for whom “this is a major work, a visiting card for Angola and the Angolans, and a open door for the country’s growth, in various aspects”.
He made it known that the visit falls within the scope of the TC’s powers, which aim to assess whether the revenues allocated for that expense are being well used and corresponding to expectations, in accordance with the signed contracts.
In technical terms, the director of the Technical Services of the Court of Auditors, José Carlos Neto, reiterated that it is the competence of the TC to supervise the contracts concluded by the Executive above a certain value, for which reason the visit served to verify the degree of fulfillment of the contract, in perspective of physical and financial execution, considered compatible.
Located in the district of Bom Jesus, municipality of Icolo e Bengo, the new Luanda International Airport has four runways, two of which are ready for landing large and small planes.
Occupying an area of 1,324 hectares, the airport will have various services, such as hotels, rail transport, General Tax Administration (AGT) posts, Civil Protection and Fire Service and a car park with capacity for 1,000 vehicles.
The airport, which according to available data will handle a volume of goods of 50 thousand tons per year, is sized to receive aircraft of the type B747 and A380, currently the largest commercial aircraft.
The new Luanda International Airport “Dr. António Agostinho Neto”, built to adapt to the new times in the Civil Aviation sector, should start operating in 2023.
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