Tunis — During his meeting with the Tunisian Prime Minister Mr Mohamed Ghannouchi on Wednesday, the CEO of TAV (Tepe Afken Ventures), the Turkish holding in charge of the building and management of the new Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Enfidha Airport said that "in spite of the current global crisis, building works are moving ahead as planned and in good conditions".

TAV's CEO, Mr Mustafa Sani Sener added that that the project will be completed within the set deadline (October 2009) and possibly before.

TAV holding which is made of 17 enterprises, specializes in the management and building of airports.

The meeting took place in the presence of the Minister of transport, Mr Abderrahim Zouari.