Higher Committee for Operating the Passengers’ Terminal (T2) Holds its First Meeting
The Higher Committee for fulfillment of all technical and operational
requirements of the new passengers’ terminal (T2) at Kuwait International
Airport held today (Wednesday) its first meeting chaired by H.E. President of
Civil Aviation Sheikh/ Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah and the
membership of the concerned government bodies, through a virtual meeting.
The Higher Committee discussed ensuring that the passengers’ terminal
(T2) is ready and satisfies all technical requirements for the facilities and
systems, thus fulfills the needs of all future operations to make the terminal
a smart airport, including the linkage of systems and networks to the new
passengers’ terminal as well as all buildings of Kuwait International Airport
for all bodies operating at Kuwait International Airport, in accordance with
the latest technologies approved at airports in line with the timetables
determined towards this purpose.
The committee will undertake ensuring fulfillment of all necessary requirements for the success of the operational readiness program, and verifying that all concerned parties have satisfied the requirements for operation in order to achieve the transition process into actual and successful holistic operation, as well as ensuring that all concerned parties have realized the technical and operational requirements to complete the approval process for receiving the facilities and transition from the authority responsible for construction and completion all the way until to the authority in charge of licensing and operation.
The committee aims to ensure the completion of the process of assigning
the operation of the new passengers’ terminal (T2) and the management of Kuwait
International Airport, as an integrated model, to a global airport operator, and
to ensure that all requirements for the new Kuwait International Airport
operation program are met as scheduled.
The formation of the committee comes pursuant to the Ministerial
Resolution No. 404 of year 2020 from the Minister of State for Services Affairs
and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Mr./ Mubarak Salem
Al-Hurrais, which is chaired by H.E. President of Civil Aviation Sheikh/ Salman
Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah and membership of each of the
Undersecretary of Ministry of Public Works as Vice-Chairman, the Director
General of Civil Aviation, the Director General of Customs Department, the
Undersecretary of Ministry of Interior for Ports Security Affairs, the Director
General of the General Secretariat for Planning and Development, the Acting
Director General of Roads Authority, the Deputy Director General of Kuwait
Municipality for the Urban Planning Sector & Structural Plan, the Assistant
Undersecretary of Ministry of Finance for Budget Affairs, and the
Undersecretary of Ministry of Electricity & Water for Electricity
Distribution Networks Sector, in addition to representatives from “Civil
Aviation”.