General contractor and designer of the second runway Minsk National Airport is planned to define in October. This was at the \"Transport and Logistics\" reporters Minister of Transport and Communications of Belarus Anatoly Sivak.

\"It is currently preparing changes to the existing decree in which the contractor has been identified the Chinese company (\" Tochmash. \"- Approx. Learned.) She had to build up to 2014\", - said the head of the transport department. When will define a new general contractor, it will bring in the new draft regulatory document, and there will be new project deadlines. He is expected to be completed in 2018, said Anatoly Sivak.

As BelTA learned in July Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kalinin, \"Belarus has a deep all-round cooperation with China on many fronts, we will continue it, but the construction of the second runway reserve.\" According to his information, the estimated construction cost is approximately $ 300 million. During device runway, perhaps these issues will be minimized. \"We find more profitable by its own resources and to implement this project in the least possible cost. Technologically - Equipment and machinery - we are ready,\" - stated the deputy head of the government.

Anatoly Kalinin said that the Chinese side proposed to perform complex work on the second runway for $ 1.2 billion. \"We see estimate their own costs in another way\" - he concluded.

According to the Russian company \"Lenaeroproject\" acting runway at Minsk National Airport can provide a secure reception and departure of aircraft until 2018. Construction of a second runway at Minsk National Airport is scheduled to begin after the completion of the reconstruction of the terminal. It is necessary first of all to ensure the provision required to eventually spend repaired first. This includes the closure of the current band for a long period. The new runway will be able to take all the existing aircraft, including the Airbus A380 - the world\'s heaviest aircraft.