Greenfield Terminal launched, set for completion in 2016

Last Updated 13 years ago by Kenya Engineer

Today marked another milestone taken by the government in a span of less than a week since President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the Standard Gauge Railway Line towards development in our country as we mark Kenya @50. The President presided over the ground breaking of the KSh. 55.6 billion Greenfield Terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) set for completion in 2016. 

 “I expect this facility to be completed on time, within budget and to world class standards,” said President Kenyatta. “It is, therefore, my expectation that in 2016 we will be back here again to open the facility and inaugurate it for use,” he concluded.

The project is meant to expand JKIA by increasing its capacity of handling passengers by accommodating 20 million more annually from it 6.5million capacity.

President Uhuru Kenyatta said that Africa has historically missed out on development opportunities due to inadequate investments in transport infrastructure or reliance on pre-independence infrastructure. “As Kenyans, we must now get it right,” he added.

The President said that this project and the Standard Gauge line launched last week from Mombasa to Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan was a move to combat this.

The Greenfield terminal is one of the flagship projects embodied in the Vision 2030 to be implemented by the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). It will be built from scratch and delinked from the main JKIA facility and will be the single largest single facility in Africa. This development, the President said, will enable Kenya attain her National Vision 2030 aspirations to be a middle income country.

The  178, 000 square meters four level facilities includes the construction of eight air bridges for docking the aircrafts, 50 check-in counters of international standards, 45 stands for parking the aircrafts on the linked apron space and an extra runway, access roads and new vehicle parking areas.