India's top engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) said one of its units has secured a contract worth over ₹70 billion ($980 million) for design and building of a major airport on EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) basis.

The company, however, did not disclose the name or location of the 'mega' airport contract won by its L&T Construction unit.

The scope of work includes design and EPC of passenger terminal building and setting up a new runway and its rehabilitation besides construction of taxiways and aprons and a new elevated eastern cross taxiway, said the company in a statement.

The project will also see L&T unit building landside roads, utility infrastructure, drainage and modifications for the existing terminal, it stated.

As per the contract, the Indian engineering giant will also set up baggage handling systems, passenger boarding bridges, airport security systems, visual docking guidance systems, vertical horizontal transportation, airfield ground lighting and also the mechanical, electrical and plumbing works, said the statement.

Once the project gets completed, the airport's existing capacity would increase to 40 million passengers a year, it added.-TradeArabia News Service