PNG airport upgrade gets ADB backing
![A pilot fuels up his helicopter on the tarmac at Port Moresby Airport in Papua New Guinea on August 13, 2009. [ABC]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200908/r417108_1978089.jpg "A pilot fuels up his helicopter on the tarmac at Port Moresby Airport in Papua New Guinea on August 13, 2009. [ABC]")
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A pilot fuels up his helicopter on the tarmac at Port Moresby Airport in Papua New Guinea on August 13, 2009. [ABC]
Jemima Garrett
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The Asian Development Bank has approved funding for 75 per cent of Papua New Guinea's plan to revamp airports across the country.
The PNG government is planning to upgrade all 21 airports to ensure they meet international safety standards, and to improve the efficiency of its civil aviation authority.
Concessional loan funding of $US480 million has just been approved by the Asian Development Bank board.
The PNG government will contribute $85m and it is hoped the private sector will put in $75m.
The first phase of the ten-year program includes improvements to Jackson airport, in Port Moresby, and to airports in Wewak, Alatau, Kimbe and Mt Hagen.
The Asian Development Bank's PNG Country Director, Charles Andrews, says the progam will give people in rural and remote areas better access to social services and economic opportunities
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