The National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) is holding this Thursday (18) the auction of the seventh round of the airport concessions program. The lot provides for the sale of 15 terminals, including the one that is considered the “jewel in the crown” of the Brazilian Airport Infrastructure Company (Infraero): Congonhas Airport, located in the south of São Paulo, one of the busiest from the country.
The auction is scheduled for 2 pm tomorrow at B3, the São Paulo stock exchange.
According to information provided by Infraero on its website, Congonhas is the airport with the highest number of executives in the country. Until September 2019, the airport handled 60,932 passengers each day, and the daily average of flights was 592.
The groups that acquire the airports for sale in tomorrow’s round should make investments of around R$ 7.2 billion during the 30 years of the concession.
Brazil’s airport concession program transferred 77.5% of national traffic to the private sector between 2011 and 2021. With the seventh round, the forecast is that the percentage will reach 91.6% of passengers served at airports granted in the country.
The 15 airports in Anac’s 7th round of concessions are located in six states: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Pará, Mato Grosso do Sul and Amapá. They were divided into three blocks. Whoever wins Congonhas will also have to manage ten airports located in Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Pará. The concession will be for a period of 30 years.
According to Anac, the 15 airports account for 15.8% of total passenger traffic in Brazil, which is equivalent to more than 30 million travelers per year.
Block division
The SP-MS-PA-MG Block, led by Congonhas Airport, also includes the airports of Campo Grande, Corumbá and Ponta Porã, in Mato Grosso do Sul; Santarém, Marabá, Parauapebas and Altamira, in Pará; and Uberlândia, Uberaba and Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais. The minimum initial contribution is R$740.1 million.
The General Aviation Block is formed by the airports of Campo de Marte, in São Paulo, and Jacarepaguá, in Rio de Janeiro, and has a minimum initial bid set at R$ 141.4 million.
The North Block II, made up of the airports in the capitals of Pará, Belém, and Amapá, Macapá, has a minimum initial contribution of R$56.9 million.
According to the rules established in the public notice, a bidder can bid for the three blocks.
The next step after the auction will be the receipt of the qualification documents of the winning bidders of each block, which is scheduled for the 25th of this month.
The signature of the concession contracts must occur after the approval of the result by Anac’s board of directors, on a date yet to be defined.
