BEIJING: A Chinese construction company has won a contract worth an estimated $382 million to reconstruct the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore.
According to China’s state-owned Peoples Daily, the contract was awarded to China Construction Third Engineering Bureau and after the reconstruction, the airport will become the largest in the country.
This is the third project by the company in the Pakistan. Several major projects in Pakistan, including the Karachi-Lahore Motorway's section Sukkur and Multan, Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore and The Centaurus Hotel in Islamabad are all projects of the Third Engineering Bureau.