“The Silk Road”


Plovdiv Airport will become a transport corridor on the so-called The silk road that connects the West and the East. This was said during their first visit to Plovdiv by representatives of the new concessionaire of the airport - the Chinese company Hainan Airport Group. The airline will be the owner of the Plovdiv terminal in the next 35 years.

The investment interest is mostly focused on sites in Europe that are in the focus of the Chinese government’s “One Belt, One Time” initiative. One of Europe’s major investments in this line is the Han airport in Frankfurt.

The main strategy at the airport in Plovdiv will be to become a hub with passenger and cargo terminals, the company-concessionaire said. Representatives of the Chinese consortium have asked local authorities for new highways to airport and rail links to the intermodal terminals for congestion