Yopo revives talks on K692mil Nadzab project

WORK on the Nadzab Airport development in Morobe is to begin next year and completed by 2022, says National Airports Corporation chief executive Richard Yopo, pictured.
Funding agreements between Japan and Papua New Guinea were signed in 2015 but work has yet to begin on the project,
which is planned to be developed as an alternative international airport to Jackson in Port Moresby at a cost of K692 million.
Work was to have begun last year and finished in 2020, but nothing happened.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and Papua New Guinea Ambassador to Japan Gabriel Dusava in 2015 signed agreements for
a K578 million loan to Papua New Guinea for the Nadzab upgrade.
The balance of K114 million will come from the Papua New Guinea Government.
Yopo told The National yesterday theat the “the delivery of the (Nadzb) project is actually targeted for 2022”.
“The contractor is being sought. Jica is running that entirely,” her said.
“Work should commence at the end of 2019.
“We will have a two-year period, and before this parliament goes for elections (in 2022), we should deliver that.”