Italian firms to start rebuilding Tripoli airport in June

TRIPOLI, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan government said on Sunday that Italian companies will start the reconstruction of the Tripoli International Airport in June.

"The ministry has completed all technical and financial procedures to start implementing the airport reconstruction project," Milad Matug, Libya's minister of Transport and Communications, told Xinhua.

"The only thing left to be done is the completion of the security arrangements for the project site," Matug said, adding that the project will significantly help solve the civil aviation problems in Libya.

In July 2017, Libya signed a 79-million-euro (89.6 million U.S. dollars) contract with a consortium of Italian companies to rebuild the international airport in the capital Tripoli.

The airport was almost completely destroyed in 2014 during violent clashes between rival militias, which created the current political division in the North African country. Enditem