Beja: PCP advocates urgent review of airport strategic plan.
The CFP today defended the review, with “urgent”, the Beja airport's strategic plan for recovery of airport infrastructure as a tool for the development of the region.
According revealed the news to the Minute, the position appears in a draft resolution that the Communists gave to the Parliament and recommends that the Government “the appreciation of the airport as a tool for the development of the region”.
In the project, signed by 11 PCP members, including the general secretary of the party, Jeronimo de Sousa, Communists recommend the PS government that “proceed to urgently review the Strategic Plan of the Beja Airport, strengthening the strategies already defined, including activities related to the productive sectors”.
The Communist deputies also want the government “see to it that develop, matter of urgency, special conditions and characteristics of positive discriminatory support” for industrial zone infrastructure “under the concept of industry airport”, connected to the aeronautical, Aircraft Maintenance, the formation, agribusiness and activities in general who need to use the airport.
The PCP also wants the government bet on a strategy for the medium / long-term development in a Alentejo “cluster” aeronautical, articulating the Beja airport with other structures and existing companies and create, “an integrated vision of industrial development and services and enhancement of public infrastructure in the region”.
Members recall that the previous government PSD / CDS-PP, “pushed the region to solve the problem” the Beja airport, created a working group, in May 2012, which had as mission “revisit the assumptions that formed the basis of the investment in infrastructure and propose ways of monetization of civil and commercial aspects”.
Since the delivery of the working group report, dated September 2012 and advocating the review with “urgent” the strategic plan of the Beja airport, the previous government “did nothing more to develop” airport infrastructure, MEPs deplore the.
“The only measure with implications for the design” that the previous government took was the privatization of ANA – Airports Portugal, “making a positive measure, which was the integration of the airport in the national airport network, an increased concern, which is the management of the network based on income criteria and not development”, refer Members.
According to the PCP, developments that are known related to the Beja airport is the installation of an aircraft dismantling unit, “but the truth is that there is talk of this project for over four years”.
On the other hand, refer Members, the Strategic Plan of Transport and Infrastructure for the period 2014-2020 It is mentioned an investment of three million euros in the development of the Beja airport and “the strategic plan of the responsibility for ANA”, “but without having to specify the type of the investment”.
The Beja airport began operating 13 April 2011, when it performed the maiden flight, but, since then, although open, It has been virtually empty and flights and passengers on most days.
