Zagreb Airport yesterday named its new CEO, Tonči Peović. The former CEO of Dubrovnik Airport will now become the front man of the country’s largest airport. Peović has promised that a new terminal will be built and that the airport will call for a tender for the submission of projects early next year. Earlier this year a winning project for the airport’s new terminal was chosen only to be cancelled due to financial difficulty. The project will now be built in Donetsk, Ukraine. The outgoing CEO of Zagreb Airport, who has been at the job for many years, was replaced due to his inability to handle the new terminal project, according to the Croatian ministry for transportation. The terminal was to cost some 240 million Euros while the new price tag will be known in mid 2010 when the tender for the submission of designs is closed and a winning project chosen. It is expected that it will cost significantly less than the previous winning design.The investors of the new terminal will be the city of Zagreb and the Croatian government along with a private company. Like many recent large scale projects in Croatia the terminal will be built and financed by a private firm. Once the terminal is complete the airport’s profits would be split between the government and the private company. The private firm will also control the airport for the next 3 decades.
Zagreb’s current terminal opened in 1966 and has undergone minimal restorations in the past few years. It has a capacity to handle 1.5 million passengers. Last year, the terminal welcomed 2.1 million passengers illustrating the need for a new terminal or the expansion of the current terminal building. Initial plans for the construction of a new terminal building were made back in 1997. More than a decade later Zagreb is still waiting.
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