📋 Tender Overview
We have full progress in the planning of the relocation of Bodo airport. The project is now entering a pre-project phase which will be based on a simultaneous relocation of the terminal and runway. Such a move will contribute to a positive urban development in Bodo and give good ripple effects in the entire region says Minister of Transport Knut Arild Hareide.The Ministry of Transport and Communications has now decided that the planning of the relocation of Bodo Airport will continue in a pre-project phase. The further planning will be based on a simultaneous relocation of the runway and the terminal alternative 1 e in Avinors sketch project. This is in line with the recommendations from Avinor and Bodo municipality.Splice between the state Avinor and a local contributionTo ensure progress in this project we will in the planning continue the good cooperation between the state Avinor and the municipality. Here financing will be a key issue on which it is important that the parties agree says the Minister of Transport and Communications.In considering the National Transport Plan 20182029 in the spring of 2017 the Storting supported the governments proposal to move Bodo airport about one kilometer southwest to secure space for further urban development.It is planned to finance the move as a joint venture between the state Avinor and a local contribution. In the autumn of 2019 Avinor presented a sketch project with five different development alternatives for the new airport. The various development alternatives and Avinors self-financing have been through an external quality assurance KS1.
