RUSSIA PLANS TO COMPLETE BUILDING THIRD RUNWAY AT SHEREMETYEVO AIRPORT PRIOR TO WORLD CUP 2018
January 1st, 2017
THE RUSSIAN government has said it will ensure the construction of a third runway at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia’s busiest airport, prior to the FIFA World Cup 2018, despite the project having been approved since 2009. Dmitry Peskov, press-secretary of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, stressed that the new runway will be 3,200 metres long and 60 metres wide. Engtransstroy, one of Russia’s leading engineering companies, is the general contractor.
The project is complex, as a taxiway overpass the Sheremetyevo highway, and the runway ...
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