Inversiones
NEW QUITO AIRPORT AND FRANK
AREA:
For over twenty
years the Government of Ecuador has been promoting the
idea of transferring airport operations to a new site to
encourage the economic growth of both the city and the
country. In common with many other Latin American
countries Ecuador has experienced a constant growth in
the use of air transport and it was felt that the
benefits to the economy would be lost if a modern air
transport infrastructure was not available.
In 1999 the New Airport Commission began the development process by requesting interested consortia to submit their credentials to design, build, operate and maintain the new airport under a fixed period concession contract. The Commission pre-qualified several interested groups, including a consortium led by The Canadian Commercial Corporation(“CCC”).
In 2001 CORPAQ re commenced the bidding procedure in form of a Swiss Challenge and on January 25, 2002 awarded the CCC Consortium the concession for the development of the New Quito Airport. ”). Today the CCC led consortium is composed of the following participants; Airport Development Corporation (“ADC”) and Aecon Infrastructure, (a division of Aecon Holdings Inc (“Aecon”) and HAS Development Corporation. (the Houston Airport company)
The New Airport Concession will be for a period of 35
years and as part of the concession agreement the CCC
consortium took over the responsibility of operations
and maintenance of the Mariscal Sucre Airport on the
18th of November 2002 and will operate the airport until
operations transfer to the New Quito airport in 2010.
