The passenger flow at the Chisinau International Airport will increase over the next few years from 3 million at present to 5 million, as Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Andrei Spînu forecasts. The official said that a new terminal is needed given the expected developments, IPN reports.

“The construction of a new terminal according to the European standards, which would connect the people, the diaspora and the European business community with the one of the Republic of Moldova, should start as swiftly as possible,” the minister told a news conference.

The necessary investments were estimated at minimum €200 million.

The objective forms part of the plan for reconstructing Moldova’s infrastructure, being a project of national importance, alongside another four projects, such as the building of the Ungheni – Chisinau – Odessa highway, European-gauge high-speed railway line that would connect Bucharest and Chisinau and Chisinau and Odessa, reconstruction of the state port in Giurgiulesti and building of new bridges over the Prut and the Nistru.