UniCredit and Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna: obtained €25 million

loan transaction with SACE's programme Garanzia Italia

Bologna, July 16 2020 - Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna (AdB S.p.a.) obtained with UniCredit a loan of €25 million euros, assisted by the guarantees issued in a short time by SACE as part of it's Garanzia Italia programme.

The financing operation, structured with a duration of 72 months, is largely aimed at meeting the increased need for working capital and supporting the industrial plan.

"This operation helps to strengthen Bologna Airport in order to deal in the best possible way with the impact that Covid emergency has had on the Group's accounts - said the CEO of Bologna Airport Nazareno Ventola - We have demonstrated the solidity of our financial structure in the hardest moments of the pandemic, and today we are starting again with even greater strength at the service of the territory".

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Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna, classified as a "strategic airport" in the centre-north area of the National Airports Plan prepared by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, in 2019 was the seventh biggest Italian airport by passenger numbers, with 9.4 million passengers (Source: Assaeroporti). Located in the heart of the Emilian food valley and the automotive and packaging industrial districts, the airport has a catchment area of about 11 million inhabitants and around 47,000 companies, with a strong propensity to exports and internationalisation and with commercial expansion policies to Eastern Europe and Asia.

The presence at the airport of some of the largest airlines in Europe along with some of the leading low-cost carriers and the close link with European continental hubs make Bologna Italy's forth airport for global connectivity (Source: ICCSAI - Fact Book 2019).

As for airport infrastructure, the airport has among its strategic objectives in the next few years an important development plan that mainly concerns the expansion of the terminal, particularly in the parts of security checks and gate area. The company's aim is to make Bologna Airport one of the most modern and functional in Italy, an important gateway to the city and region.

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