Mali’s transport ministry has started the privatisation of its main airport – Bamako-Sénou – located some 15 kilometres south of Bamako, the capital of the West African nation.
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Mali's Bamako-Sénou |
Interested parties are expected to submit their qualifications by July 30. According to the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) databse, the Bamako-Sénou concession is the second launched in Africa since 2001.
Conservative estimates from the Mali government estimate that the airport should reach a high of 900,000 passengers by 2015 under an annual four percent growth-rate scenario.
However, traffic has been growing at a much higher rate, with a 12.4 percent increase in passenger numbers recorded in 2007 and a 14 percent increase in 2008, according to news agency African Manager.