Not only our highways and bridges are crumbling. The runways of many German airports are in a desolate state. Fighting the crumbs slopes is expensive. But it does not help: the so-called concrete cancer they can ever burst
More and more runways of many German airports are in disrepair.. As the “Saarbrücker Zeitung” reported on Tuesday, EUR 1.2 billion will be needed to remedy a serious damage to the slopes in the coming years. The newspaper refers to an internal report of the Working Group Aviation for Transport Ministerial Conference, which begins in Heringsdorf on Thursday.
Concrete cancer can slopes burst
The airports have to provide appropriate capacity. “Is a mandatory requirement that any air transport infrastructure is rehabilitated,” the experts warn aloud “SZ”. Currently, the operator would provide mainly through “provisional measures” that the safety of flight operations is not affected.
cause of the poor state of the slopes is thus the so-called concrete cancer. It react to certain varieties of silica to the concrete as soon as they are exposed to water. Cracks and bloating. If not quickly restored, the condition worsens. Hazardous Holperpisten arise.
“Many” German airports affected
Overall, there are loud Airports Association in Germany 22 international airports. In addition, around 70 regional airports. “Many” are affected, the damage ‘significant’, it is stated in the paper. but no airports are named concreteness. but Supposedly after SZ-information, among other things, the airports Frankfurt and Bremen to be affected.
Overall, were ramshackle 2.8 million square meters. must be started with the first renovations later this year in order to complete them in ten years may, it is stated in the report. Otherwise, experts fear for the performance of the airports. For “in 2030 are forecast in Germany 300 million passengers; that’s over 100 million more than 2014 “.
Confederation to help
With the operation including rehabilitation of airports but the airport company earn according to the report” due to the market power of airlines mostly no money ” , Unlike other modes of transport, there is no federal subsidies.
At the joint conference, the countries want the federal government to move but that it provides unique adequate resources to address a “special disadvantage”. In this way, is to be avoided, that is violating the strict EU state aid rules, which hardly allows state aid. Supposedly but be extremely low willingness of federal payments to.
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