Grupo Carso Consortium Wins Contract to Build Terminal Building of NAICM
February 09, 2017
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The Grupo Carso consortium, which includes FCC and other companies in the sector, has won a contract to build the terminal building of the New International Airport for Mexico City, or NAICM. In conjunction with the Mexico City Airport Group, belonging to the Secretary of Communications and Transport of the Mexican Government, the Grupo Carso consortium, which includes FCC and other companies in the sector, has signed the contract to build the terminal building of the New International Airport for Mexico City (NAICM), which was awarded on 6 January of this year. The contract is worth MXN 84.8 billion (USD 4.2 billion /EUR 3.925 billion) and will have a 44 month completion deadline. The signatory consortium was awarded the contract after submitting the best economic and technical bid for the project. The new airport, which will be built on land located in the Federal Zone of Lake Texcoco, will be the world's second most important under construction. The contract award is for the construction of a building with an area of 743,000 square metres over four floors on a plot of land measuring 4, 430 hectares.
Grupo Carso, S.A.B. de C.V. is a holding company. The Company holds interests in various companies, which operate in the industrial, retail, infrastructure and construction, and energy sectors. The Company's segments include Retail, Industrial, Infrastructure and Construction, and Carso Energy. The Company's subsidiaries include Grupo Sanborns, S.A.B. de C.V., which operates various retail formats in Mexico; Grupo Condumex, S.A. de C.V., which has a portfolio of products and services focused on meeting the needs of the telecommunications, construction, electricity, energy, automotive and mining industries; Carso Infraestructura y Construccion, S.A. de C.V., which serves the chemical and oil industry, pipeline installations, infrastructure, civil construction and housing developments sectors, and Carso Energy, S.A. de C.V., which holds interests in various companies in the sector of exploration and production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbons, and electricity.