New cargo airport planned for Warsaw

The Infrastructure Ministry is planning to construct a cargo airport near Warsaw and its final location is to be decided by the end of 2003. According to Civil Aviation Office (ULC) spokeswoman Katarzyna Krasnodębska, the planning phase of the project would be conducted over 2003 and 2004 with construction work between 2006 and 2008. According to the head of the Sejm Infrastructure Commission, Janusz Piechociński, among the most likely locations was Radom, Nowe Miasto, Mszczonów and Bolimów. There are no firm estimates of the construction costs, but according to Piechociński they should amount to approximately zł. 12 billion including creation of the necessary infrastructure. However the spokeswoman for PP Porty Lotnicze, Edyta Mikołajczyk, claims the cargo airport may cost as much as zł. 20 billion, which could be not borne by the state budget alone. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 7) M.M.