Minister reveals plans for Beirut airport growth
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A land deal is underway to expand Rafik Hariri International Airport, and will soon see enhanced security measures to handle increase in number of travellers, the public works and transportation minister recently revealed.
The minister revealed that a plan was underway to boost the airport’s capacity from about six million travellers last year to 12 m over the next few years, and that an exchange of lands with the Defense Ministry was already in the pipeline. There was also a plan to enhance security measures in light of increase in number of travellers coming through Lebanon’s only international airport.
“There are occasions and seasons in which numbers of travellers increase, which results in the need to increase security existence inside the airport,” Zeaiter said. Enhancing security arrangements, he added, would protect both travelers and the airport’s facilities.
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