Aeroporto di Nairobi in fiamme
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Quella all'interno della struttura circolare (e devastata) e' la zona arrivi, con controllo passaporti e nastri bagagli. Se la zona partenze (che e' separata da quella arrivi e collegata da un corridoio) fosse integra forse i danni sono meno gravi di quanto puo' sembrare. Si puo' allestire - credo - in poco tempo un capannone provvisorio dove mettere consegna bagagli e controllo passaporti, magari anche in un'altra zona dell'aeroporto.
OT da cronaca estiva:
Police officers and airport workers are being questioned over suspected acts of looting during this week's fire at an airport in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Investigators said some of the acts had been caught on security cameras. Items stolen included cash and alcohol.
The cause of Wednesday's fire at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) has not yet been determined.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has ruled out terrorism but warned those responsible would be punished.
Seven police officers, including an inspector, are being questioned over suspected looting.
One investigator told the AFP news agency: "It is embarrassing because some of them concentrated on looting instead of raising alarms.
"We're questioning all of them. Police officers, immigration staff, civilians who work in other areas and even taxi drivers."
The suspects could appear in court on Monday, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reported.
The fire took about four hours to bring under control, by which time the arrivals hall had been gutted.
The airport is a regional hub, serving more than 16,000 passengers daily, and its closure caused widespread disruption.
President Kenyatta said on Friday: "There was no element of terror, no evidence of explosions or improvised explosive devices in this incident," adding that "those responsible for negligence will have to be punished".
Operations have now resumed at the airport, with both domestic and international flights running.
Fonte: BBC
Police officers and airport workers are being questioned over suspected acts of looting during this week's fire at an airport in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Investigators said some of the acts had been caught on security cameras. Items stolen included cash and alcohol.
The cause of Wednesday's fire at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) has not yet been determined.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has ruled out terrorism but warned those responsible would be punished.
Seven police officers, including an inspector, are being questioned over suspected looting.
One investigator told the AFP news agency: "It is embarrassing because some of them concentrated on looting instead of raising alarms.
"We're questioning all of them. Police officers, immigration staff, civilians who work in other areas and even taxi drivers."
The suspects could appear in court on Monday, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reported.
The fire took about four hours to bring under control, by which time the arrivals hall had been gutted.
The airport is a regional hub, serving more than 16,000 passengers daily, and its closure caused widespread disruption.
President Kenyatta said on Friday: "There was no element of terror, no evidence of explosions or improvised explosive devices in this incident," adding that "those responsible for negligence will have to be punished".
Operations have now resumed at the airport, with both domestic and international flights running.
Fonte: BBC
"International flights operating to, from and through Nairobi (NBO) have resumed normal schedules. Due to facility constraints, international arrivals to NBO may experience delays in passenger processing."
Piccolo aggiornamento, dopo circa un anno. Sembra quasi pronto il nuovo terminal...
MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2014
How airport picked up the pieces after fire tragedy
The new Jomo Kenyatta International Airport terminus on July 15, 2014. PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI
By WACHIRA KANG'ARU
More by this AuthorTomorrow, one year ago, the country woke up to news that the regional gateway was in flames. Accident or sabotage?
These were the top questions that needed answers. How had a whole terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport burnt down?
All this for a government that had been in office for only five months. But there was something else more urgent to attend to.
The reputation of JKIA depended on the speed of the turnaround to ensure safe takeoff and landing of aircraft.
This relied on getting three critical parties into agreement: Kenya Airports Authority, Civil Aviation, and the airlines. The three had to agree that the airport was safe for use.
National carrier Kenya Airways was critical to this equation. If KQ didn’t fly, other international airlines would find it hard to take to the runway. Yet there was a small problem.
DEEP IN THE TRENCHES
The management of KAA and that of Kenya Airways were, for more than a year then, deep in the trenches, fighting from their corners for what they believed to be the best design for the proposed Greenfield terminal.
It was not just the two who were not seeing eye to eye. Customs and security agencies had their preferences, too.
“I don’t know what the fire did to the JKIA community, but it galvanised everyone.
“People who previously were not co-operating started to work together. It is this that made us do a miracle in getting the airport back up,” KAA managing director Lucy Mbugua told Smart Company.
At the time, the only building that was usable was the international departure. Tents were set up to host arrivals and check-ins.
That very day, at 6.30pm, African Express landed from Wajir. By 7.45pm, a German charter plane, Condor, had taken off, reopening the airport. Kenya Airways made it third, taking the runway for Mombasa.
Kenya Airways would dominate the next day with flights from Bangkok, London and Amsterdam — the latter two, having been diverted to Mombasa earlier, making an entry.
Four flights to Juba, Johannesburg, Accra, and Antanarivo also made Day Two. A national crisis was brought to an end in 48 hours.
On Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta would make his second visit to the airport to access the recovery effort.
GET OUT OF THE TENTS
After the tour, he called the team and thanked them for the quick turnaround.
He then told them that they had less than three weeks to get out of the tents, or risk losing passengers’ goodwill.
In a polite way, he left after issuing a three-week ultimatum for the team to get the temporary shelter out of the airport. “It was a race against time,” recalls Ms Mbugua. “We literally never slept.”
Luckily, funding for the recovery came in plenty and fast. Messages of goodwill from the World Bank and the Africa Development Bank arrived, with pledges of financial assistance.
Unlike funds for normal projects, the pledged cash came quickly, oiling the recovery effort. “In three weeks, check-in for departure terminal for 1B and 1C were operational and Gate Four to 10.
“By the fourth week, we had opened the parking garage as the arrivals terminal. Within a month, there was not a single tent at JKIA,” Ms Mbugua notes.
The first phase of the recovery was completed. Parallel to this, the management switched to remodel the airport, fast tracking development projects that were already underway or at planning stages.
As was the case with the recovery stage, speed was of the essence. Two months after the fire, Terminal 1A (previously Terminal 4), was 30 per cent to completion, three years after the ground-breaking ceremony. Ten months later, tomorrow, the terminal will be 90 per cent complete.
The new terminal is to double JKIA’s annual passenger capacity. It covers 178,000 square meters, has 50 international and 10 domestic check-in points, 32 contact, eight remote gates and an associated apron with 45 stands and linking taxiways. It adds seven boarding bridges.
Also under construction is Terminal 2 — prefabricated to handle 2.5 million passengers annually. It is to be used by low-cost carriers.
By June next year, two new arrivals terminals will be completed, with the first of these opening for testing in January, and by March being ready for use by the public.
This will mark the final phase of the recovery, which will entail retiring the parking garage as an arrivals terminal, and all programmes returning to normal.
FINISHED AND COMMISSIONED
To resolve a long ranging problem of lack of aircraft parking, an additional 16 parking spaces — bringing the total to 49 — have been finished and commissioned.
As this was happening, an unexpected event developed, throwing the programme off balance. Terrorists breached the airport’s security and cast an explosive device into one of the restaurants.
This set off a series of events, resulting in the ongoing construction of a screening yard.
On completion, it’s expected to automate screening processes, sanitising about 80 per cent of the regular traffic — both human and vehicular — easing movement to the airport. The project is funded by the National Treasury at a cost of Sh1.3 billion.
With the teams at the airport having found a way to talk to each other, construction of the Sh56 billion Greenfield Terminal is already underway. But there has been a change to the original plan.
Conceived by President Mwai Kibaki’s government, the Greenfield Terminal was to be funded by Chinese investors. It was developed under a design and finance model and the winning contractor had initiated talk with Exim Bank of China to fund the project.
The financing would conform to a government-to-government model, with the National Treasury required to offer State guarantees to secure the loan.
The change of government in Kenya last year altered this. The funding is now to be done by Africa Development Bank. The new financing model will see AfDB advance the money directly to KAA on the strength of the authority’s revenue base.
DIVERSIFYING REVENUE BASE
The authority is also designing a second runway while resurfacing the current one.
To fund this and future projects, KAA is diversifying its revenue base to other commercial activities, besides airport services.It is also seeking to add value to the current services.
Last month, the authority asked the private sector to tender for development and operation of a new terminal to cater for premium passengers.
The setting up of a commercially important person (CIP) terminal will put JKIA in the league of the world’s best airports.
Going by international standards, passengers using the terminal will likely pay a premium for the services.
Abu Dhabi International Airport, for instance, charges guests at least Sh48,000 (AED 2,000) for arrival and departure services and Sh84,000 (AED3,500) for transit services at its VIP terminal.
At London’s Heathrow Airport, deep-pocketed passengers part with at least Sh224,950 (£1,500) for VIP services, before value-added tax. This covers one to six passengers.
PRIVATE LOUNGES
Generally, passengers using these terminals will be provided with private lounges where they can relax or carry out meetings.
Their choice of food and beverages will be served as airport staff process their immigration details, check-in or baggage collection.
In London, passengers are also provided private shoppers and a chauffeur to drive them to their aircraft for departures.
“JKIA has got to a point where we are receiving many private jets that are ready to pay for such services,” says Ms Mbugua.
In addition to the commercially important person (CIP) terminal, the Kenya Airports Authority is looking to private investors to put money in a planned industrial park, a shopping mall, a hotel and a medical facility at the premises.
The hotel, medical facility and the mall will be developed under similar arrangements, with private firms expected to build and manage the facilities.
The medical centre is expected to be capable of providing diagnostic, on-site laboratory, ambulance and pharmacy facilities.
The hotel is likely to be built by a big hospitality chain, with KAA requesting that bidders provide proof that they have constructed facilities with 4-star ratings and are managing at least 10 branded hotels in three continents.
A 2.25 hectare piece of land has been ear-marked for construction of the mall that will house restaurants, business centres, and other departmental stores.
KAA has also set aside land that will be leased out to businesses wishing to be housed in the Airport Business Zone, which will later evolve into a Special Economic Zone.
In un anno hanno ricostruito un terminal che era stato distrutto dalle fiamme e senza offesa stiamo parlando del kenya. Non oso immaginare quanto ci sarebbe voluto se fosse successo in italia...
Sulla base di un comunicato stampa non si possono trarre molte conclusioni, aspetterei a dire che hanno fatto un bel lavoro.
Le mie esperienze recenti a NBO sono state disastrose.
Le mie esperienze recenti a NBO sono state disastrose.
Credo che la voce più autorevole sia il forumista che abita in Kenia e che gira il mondo preticando wind surf!
Eccolo. Surf, non windsurf
Le cose stanno cosi': nell'immediato hanno ripreso le operazioni grazie agli americani (e israeliani, ma sa brutto dirlo). Infatti sulle tende provvisoriamente allestite vi era la chiara scritta "USAID".
L'area maggiormente danneggiata era quella degli arrivi internazionali, che e' stata provvisoriamente allestita nell' (ex) parcheggio multipiano, e dove si trova tuttora. Infatti se avete modo di arrivare a NBO noterete sul pavimento i marciapiedi e le strisce gialle nella hall, oltre al soffitto basso.
Quanto al nuovo terminal, questo era gia' in costruzione prima dell'incendio, ne hanno solo accelerato l'ultimazione. Ed e' comunque riservato a KQ (o forse anche alle socie Skyteam, non sono sicuro).
Le altre compagnie usano il vecchio terminal, ed e' cambiato poco o niente. Gran parte di questo articolo e' fuffa.
Il tutto con buona pace per i proprietari dei duty free che, a incendio domato, si sono accorti che i loro negozi erano misteriosamente stati svuotati. Evidentemente pompieri e forze di polizia avevano altro in mente rispetto a gestire una emergenza... ed avrebbero replicato un mese dopo al Westgate.
Dimenticavo, non c'e' scritto, mi sembra, cosa abbia scatenato l'incendio. Sembra siano state delle stufette elettriche non autorizzate del personale in servizio di notte (Agosto e' pieno inverno), che avevano peraltro i salvavita disattivati con lo scotch. E meta' delle autocisterne dei pompieri erano vuote per motivi ignoti.
That's Africa my friends...
Non per dire, ma forse le tue "esperienze recenti a NBO" erano con il terminal vecchio. Comunque credo che si debba lasciare l'ultima parola a BGW (il forumista che vive a Nairobi, pratica il Windsurf e di solito viaggia in J o F)
Grazie BGW! Insomma NBO è come al solito, dunque da evitare (come KE peraltro). Più che a costruire aeroporti, pare che siano bravi a fare comunicati stampa. E qui anche noi ci difendiamo.