Economy

Brazil aviation body moves to approve auction of 16 airports

The concessions should cover 39.2 mi departures and arrivals

Wellton Máximo

Published on 22/12/2021 - 14:14

Brasília

avião no aeroporto Santos Dumont — © Tania Rego

Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency, ANAC, today (Dec. 21) approved the draft for the request for proposals and concession deals of the 16 airports to be offered to the private enterprise. The documents will be submitted to the country’s Federal Court of s (TCU) for review.

The auction for the 7th round of airport concessions should be held in the first half of next year, should the court approve the request for proposals as well as the contracts. The concessions are expected to cover 26 percent of departures and arrivals in the country—26 percent of engers recorded in 2019—and should bring in BRL 8.6 billion in private investments over the next 30 years.

The airports have been divided into three blocks. The first comprises terminals in the states of São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Pará, headed by São Paulo’s Congonhas and Campo de Marte airports. Next come the airports of Campo Grande, Corumbá, and Ponta Porã, in Mato Grosso do Sul; Santarém, Marabá, Parauapebas, and Altamira, in Pará. The block has a minimum bid of BRL 525.2 million and an estimated contract value of BRL 11.4 billion.

Led by the Santos Dumont and Jacarepaguá airports, in Rio de Janeiro, the second block also includes the airports of Montes Claros, Uberaba, and Uberlândia, in Minas Gerais state, and is expected to have a minimum bid of BRL 324 million and a contract value forecast at BRL 5.8 billion.

The third block includes the airports of Belém and Macapá. With a minimum bid of BRL 56.6 million, the two airports are estimated to have a minimum contract value at BRL 1.9 billion.

A single consortium may hand over all three blocks, with a minimum bid of BRL 905.8 million. To demonstrate capacity to manage airports, prospective operators must prove experience processing 5 million engers for at least one year in the last five years in order to vie for the blocks comprising São Paulo–Pará and Rio de Janeiro–Minas Gerais. To operate the third block, the minimum number of engers required drops to 1 million.

The auctions for the 7th round of airport concessions were qualified by the Investment Partnership Program Committee, or PPI, in December last year and authorized by Decree No. 10.635, dated February 22, 2021.