Inauguration of work on the maintenance of Hodeida Inte’l Airport
Minister of Transport, Abdul Wahab Al-Durra, and the Governor of Hodeida, Mohammed Qahim, inaugurated work on maintaining Hodeida International Airport.
Minister Al-Durra and Governor Qahim, along with the Deputy Chief of the General Staff – Head of the National Team for Redeployment, Major General Ali Al-Moshki, and the Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA), General Michael Beary, were briefed on the damage to the airport as a result of the bombing of the aggression.
They listened from the Director of Hodeida Airport, Ahmed Tarish to an explanation of the damage to the airport as a result of the bombing and targeting of the aggression, with members of the National Redeployment Team, Major General Muhammad Al-Qadri and Brigadier General Mansour Al-Saadi.
They also heard from the Director of the Airports Sector at the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Amin Jamaan, and the head of the engineering team, Abdul Ghani Al-Sharafi, an explanation about the plan to restart the airport and the needs of its rehabilitation and treatment of damages to ensure its return to service as the first cargo airport in the Republic.
Minister Al-Durra referred to the importance that Hodeidah Airport represents to serve the people of the governorate and neighboring governorates with a dense population, with an estimated capacity of 800,000 passengers annually, to several international destinations for treatment, trade and others.
He stressed the importance of the United Nations playing a responsible role in rehabilitating the airport and repairing the damage to its facilities and services, including the passenger reception halls, the tower, and the landing and take-off runways, and restarting it to receive all flights.
For his part, Governor Qahim stressed that restarting the airport is an urgent necessity to alleviate the suffering of citizens, especially patients. While Major General Al-Mushki and Major General Al-Qadri affirmed that the national redeployment team is keen on peace and adheres to the terms of the Sweden agreement and made many concessions in order to establish peace in Hodeida, and provides all forms of support for the success of the UN mission’s work.
The Minister of Transport, Qahim, and the Deputy Chief of Staff, had inaugurated the process of removing the remnants of the aggression from the airport hall, in preparation for its rehabilitation, operation, and restoration of navigation, in translation of the directives of the Leader of the Revolution and the Chairman of the Political Council.
