Build and supply expo set to open this month
01 MAY 2001
Dubai's plan to make its international airport one of the world's leading aviation hubs will be highlighted by an exhibition creating a lucrative Middle East showcase for suppliers later this month.
The Airport Build & Supply Exhibition at Airport Expo Dubai from May 28-30 will be held under the patronage of Shaikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of Dubai's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA).
The DCA has commissioned the exhibition as a key element in the decision-making process for the $1.4 billion next phase of development at the airport.
Shaikh Ahmed said: ''The DCA is committed to ensuring that the second phase of the airport development is built to the most advanced and aesthetic specifications possible. The exhibition will provide participating companies with a unique platform to meet project decision-makers and showcase their products, services and technologies. In addition, the DCA and its consultants will schedule private meetings with exhibitors during the event to discuss design, construction and supply requirements.
Visitors to the exhibition will include officials from other airports across the Middle East where major expansion and construction is taking place.
Joanne Evans, director of Streamline Marketing, the event's organiser, said: "A huge amount of airport development is under way across the region, making participation at the exhibition essential for suppliers of equipment and services needed by airports."
In addition to Dubai, major Middle East airport projects under way, or planned, are at Algiers ($300 million), Cairo ($400m), Hurghada ($100m) and Sharm El Sheikh ($100 m) in Egypt, Libya ($56m), Doha ($450m), Jeddah ($500-$750m), Tunisia ($244m), and Abu Dhabi ($600m).
The exhibition line-up will include suppliers of escalators, elevators, and moving walkways, to security and lighting systems, telecommunications, automated baggage systems, fixtures and fittings, signage and graphics, leisure facilities, aircraft hangars, fire stations and fighting equipment, cargo handling equipment, airfield lighting systems, radar and air navigation systems, as well as runways with high-speed exit taxiways.
