Regulator approves edict for concession of airports in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) approved on Tuesday the text of the edict by which the Brazilian government will auction in 2022 the concession of 16 airports, including two of the busiest in the country, located in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The regulatory body informed that its management approved all the minutes of the edict of the seventh round of airport concession, which includes the coveted terminals of Congonhas and Santos Dumont, used for domestic flights from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two largest cities in Brazil.
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After Anac’s approval, the government now depends on the text also being approved by the Union’s Court of Auditors (TCU), the congressional oversight body, to meet its goal of holding the auction in the first half of 2022, reported EFE.
Congonhas is the second busiest airport in Brazil, with 22.3 million passengers transported in 2019, and is only surpassed by Guarulhos, São Paulo’s international airport, which moves 42.2 million passengers a year.
Santos Dumont is seventh on the list, with 8.9 million passengers transported in 2019.
According to the bidding rules, the 16 airports will be offered in three blocks and the consortia awarded the three 30-year concessions will have to pay a minimum value of R$905.8 million (about US$158.9 million) for the licenses.
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The winners, in addition, will have to commit to investments of R$19.1 billion (about $3,350.9 million) to expand and modernize the airports they are awarded.
The block that has generated most interest among investors is the one that includes the airports of Congonhas, Campo de Marte (another terminal in the city of Sao Paulo), Campo Grande, Corumbá, Ponta Pora, Santarem, Marabá, Paraupebas and Altamira.
The consortium awarded these nine airports will have to pay a minimum of R$525.2 million (about US$92.1 million) for the license and commit to investments of R$11.4 billion (about US$2 billion).
The second block is composed of the airports of Santos Dumont, Jacarepaguá (another terminal in the city of Rio de Janeiro), Montes Claros, Uberlandia and Uberaba, and the third of the airports of Belém and Macapá, two regional capitals in the Amazon.
The 16 airports to be awarded to private initiative are responsible for 39.2 million embarkations and disembarkations, equivalent to 26% of the passenger movement in Brazil.
The companies that register for the auction will have to prove experience in operating terminals with a movement of up to 5 million passengers per year in the last five years.
In the sixth airport concession auction, held in April of this year, Brazil raised close to US$ 600 million for the concession of 22 terminals, also distributed in three blocks.
This value was, on average, 3,822% higher than the minimum required by the Government for the licenses.
The biggest winner in the last auction was the Brazilian group CCR, which won the 30-year concession for the operation of two blocks (center and south) with a total of 15 terminals, while the French company Vinci won the bid for the northern block, which included 7 terminals.
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