Construction of Warsaw's new airport terminal delayed

A consortium of Ferrovial-Budimex-Estudio Lamela signed a contract with Polish State Airports (PPL) back on November 12, 2002, according to which the consortium had a year to apply and obtain permission to build the new terminal at Warsaw's airport. Receiving the relevant permits was dependent on establishing a limited use on the area around the Fryderyk Chopin airport. According to Marek Woś from PPL, the Mazowsze Voivod made a decision concerning this issue on July 19. Following this, the consortium submitted an application to receive construction permission on September 30, and is now awaiting the decision. However, it will not receive an official reply to this request until the beginning of December. Due to this the consortium might be threatened with paying some kind of penalty for the delay. The new $198.5 million terminal is to be constructed by November 2005, but the deadline has already been changed several times in the past by PPL. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) M.M.