The Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC) announced that it is considering expanding the cargo terminal at Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) through private initiative .
“Sedena was going to absorb that expense, that commitment as in the construction of the entire AIFA, today public-private investment is also being analyzed and several options are being analyzed to create those spaces because it is urgent,” said General Enrique Vallín Osuna, general director of AFAC.
In an interview, he said that the expansion of cargo warehouses is being carried out due to the saturation of the current warehouses.
According to AFAC statistics, from January to August of this year, AIFA has mobilized 300,360.8 tons, 257,159.9 tons more than in the same period last year.
It should be remembered that since September 1, 2023, all dedicated cargo airlines were forced to suspend operations at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) , following the entry into force of a presidential decree that put an end to these operations, and many of them decided to move their activities to AIFA.
Vallín Osuna mentioned without giving further details that there are already interested parties in investing in this project, “but that is up to the authorities of Sedena and AIFA to determine which is the best option for construction.”
He reiterated that ” this is the line that is being analyzed only for cargo warehouses , the AIFA is increasing little by little.”
Currently, the international cargo terminal has 12 simple warehouses (six duplexes per construction system) which are already leased.
It should be remembered that last April T21 reported that the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was seeking to provide AIFA with more cargo warehouses, and so, through the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena), it had requested 2,860.9 million pesos for the construction of said facilities.
“The project involves expanding the international cargo terminal at Felipe Ángeles International Airport by building warehouses, a platform and a taxiway to bring it to its maximum capacity and thus meet the demand for airport and complementary services, strengthening its infrastructure,” he explained.
In the document sent to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), it was stated that, due to the increase in income that the company receives from airport and complementary services, among the benefits of the new work would be that it indirectly contributes to increasing the number of sources of employment associated with the legal entities that rent the warehouses.
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