Grupo Carso-Led Consortium Wins Contract to Build Mexico City Airport
January 09, 2017 at 11:04 am EST
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An investor group led by Grupo Carso has been awarded a MXN 84.8 billion government contract to construct the terminal building of Mexico City Airport. The winning offer came from a consortium which includes Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, or FCC, and Acciona as well as Cicsa, Gia+A, Prodemex and an arm of Mexico's Grupo Hermes. FCC said in a statement that the investor group will have a 44-month deadline to complete the contract. The building works related to the project will create some 160,000 job positions. Once the airport becomes operational, its staff will number around 450,000 people.
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.
GRUPO CARSO, S.A.B. DE C.V. 
