While Macaé organizes itself for the public hearing of TEPOR (Port Terminal), it receives authorization regarding the privatization of its airport

On November 5th (Monday) President Michel Temer authorized the approval of airport concessions throughout the country, including Macaé Airport in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. The determination was published in the DOU (Official Gazette) with the approval for the concession as an operational exploration modality for the next 30 years.

Called the National Privatization Program (PND) for airports, provided for in legislation since last year, it is part of the Investment Partnerships Program (PPI). Due to the short period of time in the election year that worried the city of Macaé, the municipal government nevertheless managed to organize itself together with the state and federal governments to speed up the process and keep the airport within the Southeast block, even with the considerations of the Governor of the Holy Spirit, Mr. Paulo Hartung on account of Vitória Airport heads the block.

Fundamental in the concession processes, the blocks that in practice will be like packages, of airports divided into Northeast, Midwest and Southeast blocks, reaching around 7 million passengers. Private capital investment and the consequent revitalization, modernization and expansion of airports are expected to start generating thousands of jobs next year (2019).

Macaé, which closely follows the entire licensing process for the works on the new TEPOR (Port Terminal), offers yet another solution to what had been considered one of the city's logistical problems (BR-101, port and airport), with a scheduled public hearing for today (7) at 19 pm in relation to TEPOR.

Today Macaé airport is undergoing renovations to the landing and takeoff runway, in addition to the works that have already been carried out in relation to its structure, receiving only helicopter flights for offshore companies. Since 2015, it no longer receives commercial passenger flights, which at the time were carried out by Azul Linhas Aéreas with aircraft of the ATR 42 model that were replaced by the ATR 72, larger and with superior passenger transport capacity, but considered too heavy for the airport runway.

The airport is expected to be delivered in the middle of 2019 and the expectation is that the ATR 72 models will be able to return to traffic at the airport, and with the progress of the permission, a new renovation of the runway would be necessary so that larger aircraft can also use the airport, such as Airbus A310 and Boeing 737, used on the Rio-São Paulo airlift.

The hope now is that with the conquests of the new port and the new airport, the municipality of Macaé will once again be even more attractive for the oil and gas industry, recovering and increasing its role as the national oil capital.

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