Dakar-Yoff Leopold Sedar Senghor Airport - Investment Project
This project is about the building of a new international airport, to replace the existing Leopold Sedar Senghor airport of Dakar-Yoff; this new airport will be built to meet the demand in mid-term and long-term air traffic.
- Capacity of 2000 ha against the current 800 ha;
- Possibility of building two 4.000 m X 60 m runways designed for the existing and future high-capacity aircraft (third-generation planes);
- An initial capacity of 3 million passengers per year, which could be extended by modules by 2020;
- Capacity of 50.000 aircraft movements per year by 2020.
This airport will have several purposes: passenger and freight traffic, commercial services, workshop for the maintenance of aircraft, premises for the storing and conservation of fresh produce.