Bukaka wins Malaysian airfield deal

Bukaka wins Malaysian airfield deal

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Two consortiums made up of Malaysia's Sime Darby Bhd unit, an Indonesian firm and two local firms won two contracts yesterday to provide passenger loading bridges and apron services at Malaysia's second international airport.

The Sime Engineering Sdn. Bhd. and FMC-Jetway consortium clinched a deal worth 83.66 million ringgit (US$33.4 million), while Projass Engineering Sdn. Bhd and Indonesian-based PT Bukaka Teknik Utama won the other contract worth 117.8 million ringgit.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport Bhd. (KLIA), the company managing the new nine-billion ringgit airport now under construction, said the two contracts were signed yesterday.

The Sime consortium is to provide 30 passenger loading bridges, 40 aircraft visual docking guidance systems, 20 aircraft ground power units and related aircraft pre-conditioned air supply systems and electronic managements system to integrate apron services.

The Projas-Bukaka consortium is to provide 45 passenger loading bridges, 42 aircraft visual docking guidance systems, 26 aircraft ground power units and related aircraft pre-conditioned air supply systems.

"The two consortia will be responsible for all aspects of the design, manufacture, implementation and training of Malaysian engineers and technicians for the project," KLIA said.

KLIA said the consortiums will provide operation and maintenance activities and support services for the equipment for two years after the installation of the services.

It said the airport would be the first in the Asia-Pacific to install the glass-walled passenger loading bridges specified in the contracts.

The airport, located at Sepang, 50 kilometers (32 miles) south of here, is Malaysia's largest infrastructure project and is due for completion by the end 1997.