Frankfurt Hahn Airport sold to Chinese – SPIEGEL ONLINE

For years, the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate tried the financially ailing Hahn Airport for sale – recently were three bidders from China in the race. Now the sale is apparently in the bag. The news agency dpa According to the purchase contract is sealed by a notary, who has been awarded the contract, but

The Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Roger Lewentz is still unclear. (SPD) has invited for Monday morning at a press conference at the Airport. According to the report, this involves the sale of 82.5 percent of the shares of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz. The remaining 17.5 percent stake in the airport stops Hesse.

A spokesman for the Hesse Ministry of Finance said, “For our shares, we are still negotiating and are on the home stretch.” According to reports, it is about the same Chinese investor. According to

According to a report of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” ( “FAZ”) for a multi-week selection process three Chinese groups of investors were left:

• The Shanghai Yiqian Trading Company, which in China as middlemen for the construction industry and the retail industry operates and has nothing to do with aviation.
• Second, the Chinese conglomerate HNA who had commanded the investor consortium ADC for the airport; However, the consortium was According to “FAZ” only prepared a symbolic price of 1 euro to offer and instead to invest 50 million euros in the infrastructure.
• Larger chances were, according to the newspaper report, China’s national economic developers Henan Civil Aviation Development (HNCA) granted. The state-owned enterprises had in 2013 acquired the freight airline Cargolux and wants the regional airport apparently converted to another cargo hub.

the sale is secured definitively but only if also the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament agrees. Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) had recently announced “for the sake of maximum transparency” to submit a cock-sale law to parliament in Mainz. The agreement but it is considered safe. Here, the privatized airport is still until 2024 to get a total of more than 50 million euros operating and investment aid even after the sale.