A consortium of Vinci Airports and IFM Global Infrastructure Fund will invest in the Central Transportation Hub (CPK), the government representative for the CPK has announced.
A flagship project of the current government, the Central Communication Port is a planned transport hub, due to be built between Warsaw and Lodz, which will encompass a brand-new airport with rail and road links.
According to the CPK website, the project will cover some 3,000 hectares, include “10 major rail corridors radiating” from it, and during the first stage of the airport’s operations will handle 40 million passengers a year.
“We have an investor willing to put up to PLN 8 billion (EUR 1.79 billion) into the construction of the CPK in exchange for taking a minority stake in the company operating the airport,” Marcin Horala, deputy minister of funds and regional policy, and the government representative for the CPK, wrote on the X platform on October 24. “It’s a consortium of Vinci Airports and IFM Global Infrastructure Fund.”
The CPK company, owned exclusively by the State Treasury, stated that the “investors have applied to acquire shares in CPK Airport only and not shares or stocks in other companies controlled by CPK.”
Vinci Airports (a part of the Vinci Group) is the world’s leading private airport operator, managing more than 70 airports around the world.
IFM Global Infrastructure Fund is an investment fund from Australia with interests in 17 airports worldwide.
The CPK, according to estimates, should provide employment for over 150,000 people, and its “Airport City”, which would be created within the CPK’s zone, would include fair, congress and conference facilities as well as offices, the website indicated. (PAP/Business World Magazine)
