Kathmandu, Jan. 3 -- A Chinese state-owned company has won the bid to build key infrastructure at the Tribhuvan International Airport that had been left in limbo for the last three years causing severe congestion at the country's sole international airport.

According to the airport authority, China National Aero Technology International Engineering Corporation, a state-owned enterprise specializing in building airports, has emerged as the lowest bidder to construct the facility.

"We will formally sign an agreement with the company soon," said Murari Bhandari, chief of the airport upgradation project under the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.

The company quoted Rs 6.92 billion for the project. The scope of the project includes supply ...