Universal Registration Document 2024
PRESENTATION OF THE GROUP 1 MAIN HUBS
1.3.2.3 Almaty
General description TAV Airports resumed operations in Almaty, the economic capital and the busiest airport of Kazakhstan in April 2021. TAV Airports now owns 85% of the management company of Almaty Airport and associated fuel and catering companies. The Kazakhstan Infrastructure Fund, managed by VPE Capital and supported by Kazyna Capital Management, holds the remaining 15%. Almaty is the first airport in TAV Airport’s portfolio where the Company owns the airport instead of a concession limited in time. As the main gateway for aviation in Kazakhstan and the base of the national airline Air Astana, Almaty Airport is an important crossroads on the modern “Silk Road”.
Almaty, which is the commercial capital of Kazakhstan, is located in the south-east of the country and is a major commercial centre of the Belt and Road Initiative, known as the modern “Silk Road”, which connects central China to Western Asia, Europe and Africa. It is also the financial and cultural centre of Kazakhstan, as well as its most populous and most cosmopolitan city, with a population of more than two million. Kazakhstan is the leader in Central Asia in terms of economic growth and generates around 60% of the region’s GDP.
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