Poland Wants Its Planned Airport to Be a European Gateway to Asia
- Minister touts ‘biggest undertaking’ in modern Polish history
- Government is open to Asian partners in $9.4 billion project
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Poland is banking on booming passenger and cargo traffic to help turn its planned transportation hub into a key European gateway to Asia and is open to looking for partners in the far East to help finance it.
The European Union’s largest eastern economy plans to plow as much as 35 billion zloty ($9.4 billion) by 2027 into building a 45-million passenger airport, making it the largest transportation hub in central and eastern Europe. Adding planned train and highway links to the first stage could double the final initial cost. The project is set to be “the biggest undertaking in Poland’s modern history,” even before planned later extensions that would put it at a par with the U.K.’s Heathrow Airport, the largest in Europe.