Italian companies could help rebuild the eastern port city of Benghazi's airport and in coming months will start work on a coastal highway that will span Libya, Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Wednesday.
"In my last meeting with Libya's foreign minister the prospect emerged of involving Italian companies and know-how in the reconstruction of Benghazi airport," Di Maio told MPs.
"Italy's contract to build the costal highway running across Libya from the Tunisian to the Egyptian border will get underway in the next few months and is among numerous projects in the pipeline," he said.
Building work is due to re-start on Tripoli's international airport and other airport infrastructure projects put on hold due to Libya's chronic instability, Di Maio said.
