Privatization: Hahn Airport hits Chinese investor – Handelsblatt

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the sale of the ailing Hunsrück-Hahn airport to a Chinese bidder has contractually sealed by dpa information from Sunday. The approval of the policy is still pending, but is considered safe. The Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) invited for this Monday (June 6) at a press conference (11.00) at the Airport a. After dpa information is about the notary seal on sale of 82.5 percent of the shares 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 – it should be based in Shanghai. Recently had still been in the race three Asian bidders. When selling rate for the entire airport, a sum of roughly ten million is under discussion.

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Economists expect that the negotiations on the Hessian shares are completed in a few weeks. In Rhineland-Palatinate formal nor the Parliament must approve, in Hessen next to the Cabinet of the Budget Committee of the Parliament.

Even after privatization of the loss-making former US airbase Hahn is to be supported with millions of taxpayers’ money. Until 2024 according to EU guidelines airport operating and investment aid in the amount of up to approximately EUR 50 million may still flow.

The CDU opposition in the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag criticized the former red-green state government led to Hahn Airport almost in bankruptcy. “It is to be feared that in such an emergency sale rather the buyer provides the conditions than the seller.”

The CDU criticized Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD), who now leads a red-yellow-green government: “One can state that under Mrs Dreyer the Nürburgring was russian and the chinese Hahn. Beautiful balance, Mrs Dreyer “The Nürburgring was! Went bankrupt in 2012 and is now one of the NR Holding to the Russian pharmaceutical entrepreneur Viktor Charitonin.