BRASILIA: Brazil’s government is looking to privatise the country’s airports to improve the facilities for the 2014 Football World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, the El Cronista newspaper reported.
According to El Cronista, Brazil’s plan will be a combined effort between the government and private companies to come up with the US$3 billion required to upgrade all the terminals to meet the requirements of both events.
The Brazilian government currently controls the country’s 67 airports which receive a total of 113 million passengers per year.
Eduardo Eurnekian, owner of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the company that controls the main airports of Argentina as well as several in Latin America, Italy and Armenia, is reported to have expressed an interest in bidding for the Brazilian project.
Source: El Cronista
