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CHEC explains wrong cost for new Sudan international airport

Jun 30, 2012 News

The Chinese firm that landed a contract to rebuild the Cheddi Jagan International Airport is now recanting an earlier claim that it built Sudan’s new international airport for US$100M. The company admitted that the correct project cost is 900 million Euros as stated on its website.
The company, China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), took out a full page advertisement in the Kaieteur News after it was reported that its parent company was banned by the World Bank.
In the advertisement, published two Thursdays ago, CHEC listed the projects which it successfully bid for and completed.
According to the advertisement, one of those projects was the new Sudan Airport, at a cost of US$100 million.
However, a check of the company’s website quoted a price of 900 million Euros, or US$1.2 billion. This was the price that international news agencies reported when the Sudan project was signed.
At a press briefing on Thursday, CHEC’s Communications Consultant, Huntley Medley said that the company made an error when it stated that the cost for the new international airport being constructed in Sudan was US$100M.
Medley said, “The US$100M relates to works that China Harbour is doing on a port in Sudan and not the airport. The cost of the airport is correctly 900M Euros and that was an error in translation from the port to the airport.”
He explained that the company had penned a letter to correct this error but decided to wait and clear the air at the press conference held at Guyana Pegasus, Kingston, on Thursday.
However, the company was unable to confirm if indeed Sudanese Finance Minister had stalled the airport project because of its cost.
According to the African Aviation Tribune, “The airport’s construction was stopped owing to the Ministry of Finance’s concerns over the huge amount required; that of one billion, three hundred million dollars.”

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