Skyports, Corporación América Airports Sign Agreement to Develop Vertiports in Latin America

Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture and Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports S.A (CAAP) announced this week they have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to plan the devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture for eVTOL oper­a­tions in Latin Amer­i­ca, reports a press release. The col­lab­o­ra­tion will offer “joint tech­ni­cal exper­tise for such design con­cepts in mar­kets of mutu­al inter­est.”

The part­ner­ship involves devel­op­ing net­works and oper­a­tions “for rel­e­vant use cas­es and detailed plan­ning for the deploy­ment of per­ma­nent ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture.” The com­pa­nies will eval­u­ate which CAAP assets are best suit­ed for ver­ti­port deploy­ment, pri­ori­tis­ing sites based on mar­ket readi­ness and oppor­tu­ni­ty. Loca­tions will be con­firmed at a lat­er stage.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion between the two com­pa­nies is an impor­tant step in the growth of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in Latin Amer­i­ca .

Addi­son Fer­rell

Addi­son Fer­rell, Direc­tor of Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture, com­ment­ed, “We’re at an incred­i­bly excit­ing point in the industry’s devel­op­ment as we take con­crete steps towards imple­ment­ing a scal­able ver­ti­port net­work that will facil­i­tate com­mer­cial eVTOL oper­a­tions. This part­ner­ship will be instru­men­tal to achiev­ing those objec­tives.”

Mar­tin Eurnekian, CEO of Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports, added, “With over 20 years of exper­tise and oper­a­tions in six coun­tries across LatAm and Europe, we are firm­ly com­mit­ted to con­tin­ue build­ing the future of this new way of trans­porta­tion, which will be lean­er, faster and more sus­tain­able.”

Back­ground

Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports cur­rent­ly oper­ates 53 air­ports in six coun­tries across Latin Amer­i­ca and Europe (Argenti­na, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador, Arme­nia and Italy). In June 2022, the com­pa­ny announced part­ner­ships with eVTOL vehi­cle man­u­fac­tur­ers Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and Ver­ti­cal Aero­space (both also part­ner with Sky­ports), Avolon, GOL, and Grupo Com­porte­to to sup­port the intro­duc­tion of eVTOL oper­a­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://investors.corporacionamericaairports.com/investors/corporate-profile/default.aspx

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