Saudi-based Al-Arrab Contracting Company has emerged as the lowest bidder for the General Authority of Civil Aviation’s (GACA) estimated $80m contract to expand the domestic Arar airport, near the Iraqi borders.
A report by MEED said that the expansion of the airport,which currently services around 140,000 passengers a year, entails building a new main terminal building, administration building, a crash and fire building, as well as a main electrical station building and all of the external works.
Al-Arrab is already working as part of a consortium on the $1.5bn expansion of the Prince Mohammad bin-Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah. 
It is also part of the Al-Rahji consortium working on the first phase of the Kingdom’s $6bn Haramain high-speed rail link between Makkah and Madinah.
