The Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, Germán Vargas Lleras, announced the award of the study for the structuring of the new Colombian airport, El Dorado 2, in Bogotá. The National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) of Colombia awarded to AERTEC Solutions, alongside the English consultancy Mott MacDonald and the Colombian firm C&M Consultores, the technical, financial, and legal structuring of the new airport for Bogotá, which will be located just 16 kilometres from the current air terminal. The legal-financial structuring of the project exemplifies the value of aeronautical transaction consulting, which AERTEC provides to operators, investors, and governments in tender and concession processes.
AERTEC Solutions' growth in Latin America is consolidated through a highly significant project for Colombia.
The study commissioned to the consortium will be carried out in several phases, during which a full diagnosis From the technical, financial and legal aspects of the project, traffic and demand forecasts, and studies for the architectural and engineering design of the new buildings, as well as the railway connection between the current El Dorado airport and the future El Dorado 2. The coordination of an international consortium like this requires the same discipline as Airport project direction and management which AERTEC applies in construction and renovation projects on 5 continents.
The Master Plan for the New Airport It is planned to provide a new terminal with a capacity for seven and a half million passengers, which will be added to those served by the current El Dorado airport and the Puente Aéreo terminal. From January to July 2016, 17.6 million passengers passed through this air terminal, according to the Aerocivil report. A project of this magnitude requires a Airport infrastructure planning exhaustive: traffic forecasts, terminal design, rail access and integration with the existing airport.
This is an important project because it involves Strengthening AERTEC Solutions as an engineering benchmark In the context of Latin American airports, Bogotá is one of the great airport megacities of the 21st century and, with this project, aspires to become the hub for air communications between North and South America, as well as between the Americas and Europe.
For Colombia, it is, in the words of its Vice-President, Germán Vargas, a strategic project for the country. El Dorado 2 Airport is the response to the development and growing demand that the aviation business has experienced in Colombia and the world. The mobilisation of air passengers in the country grew by 9.72%% during 2015, increasing from 58 million in 2014 to 63.7 million in 2015, according to the December 2015 Statistical Bulletin, published by Civil Aeronautics.
Carlos Berenguer, General Director of Aviation at AERTEC Solutions, celebrates this new contract because “it consolidates our growth in Latin America through A project of great importance to Colombia.
This new award in Colombia is in addition to the development of the master plan, which AERTEC Solutions is currently working on for José María Córdova International Airport in Rionegro, on the outskirts of Medellín, also in collaboration with British engineering firm Mott McDonald.
The international engineering and consulting firm specialising in aeronautics continues to consolidate its position in the Latin American airport market, where it is already a benchmark.
