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Israeli company interested in Kherson airport
17:23 / 13.03.2013

KHERSON, MARCH 13th, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― The President of the Israeli Mitrelli Group company Kami Amar has stated that the company will provide the proposals of the work resumption of the airport “Kherson” after studying all aspects, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The press service of Kherson Regional State Administration reported yesterday, 12 March.

During the meeting with the President, the manager Pini Moriya and the representative of the Mitrelli Group in Ukraine Igor Paperny, the Chairman of the Kherson Regional State Administration Mykola Kostyak noted that the issue of the renewal of the Kherson airport is the strategically important for the region.

The governor said that the regional authorities try to show Kherson not only as the agricultural region, but also as the territory with the great potential for development of resort and recreation area. Mykola Kostyak added that the airport management will get soon the conclusion of the operational capability of the runway.

“Our airport can function as a cargo-direction so the intermediate point between Europe and Asia. The only problematic issue, as I said earlier, is to search for airlines”, the Governor mentioned.

Just after the official meeting with the Governor, the representatives of the Mitrelli Group went to review the airport.

“Today we got the evidence in the possibilities of the Kherson region once again. The availability of air traffic will give added impetus to the further development of your region. Therefore we are interested in cooperation with the Kherson region”, Mr Amar noted and added that after studying all aspects, the company will give the proposals for the resumption of the airport work.