The Mozambican minister for transport and communications, Gabriel Muthisse was quoted in the Club of Mozambique as saying that the analysis of the final report on construction of a new airport in the city of Tete to replace the current one in Chingodzi has entered its final stages.
He added that the new airport would start operating in 2023 when mining would reach the area of the current airport - and force a move to a new site.
A memorandum of intentions was signed in 2010 by the Mozambican government and Anglo-Australian group Rio Tinto, and since then a study has been carried out to identify the location to build the new airport.
It has also been reported that the new Nacala International Airport would start operating in August of this year and that the cargo terminal and fire station would be finished in the first quarter of 2015.
This project includes facilities to receive aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747-400 (or its equivalent Airbus-340) and capacity for 500 000 passengers a year.
Other sources: Macauhub and The African Aviation Tribune
New airports in Mozambique
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