VPorts to Build and Operate Vertiport Hub at Private Terminal at Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo in Brazil

VPorts has been select­ed to build and oper­ate a ver­ti­port hub at the new GRU Aero­por­to Inter­na­cional de São Paulo as part of a 40-year con­ces­sion agree­ment signed with air­port author­i­ties on the con­struc­tion of a pri­vate ter­mi­nal on its premis­es. 

The new 5,100 square metre build­ing will open at the end of 2023, where the GRU pri­vate ter­mi­nal will include the ver­ti­port hub and by 2026, eVTOLs and air taxis will be con­nect­ing Guarul­hos to oth­er areas in São Paulo. 

Over 100,000 pas­sen­gers per year are expect­ed to use the ter­mi­nal by 2045, lever­ag­ing its exist­ing net­work of heli­copter oper­a­tors as São Paulo is among the most able cities to intro­duce eVTOL type ser­vices to the world. The advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try in São Paulo will reach $15 bil­lion in rev­enues by 2045, with 20 mil­lion pas­sen­gers per year. 

VPorts is also plan­ning to deploy its South Amer­i­can VPorts Oper­a­tion Con­trol Cen­ter in São Paulo and will over­see the oper­a­tion of all its ver­ti­ports in South Amer­i­ca from there, iden­ti­fy­ing oth­er loca­tions for its ver­ti­ports, based main­ly on car­go demand and the cur­rent air­space con­fig­u­ra­tion. 

VPorts will work with Brazil’s ANAC Nation­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency and eVTOL oper­a­tors to devel­op the plan for col­lab­o­ra­tive oper­a­tions of ver­ti­ports and make them avail­able for São Paulo and GRU air­port pas­sen­gers from across the globe.

VPorts has part­nered with best-in-class com­pa­nies on the GRU project. The vertiport’s con­cept of oper­a­tions and oper­a­tional require­ments, which includes the air traf­fic man­age­ment inte­gra­tion, are being devel­oped by NUAIR, a New York-based engi­neer­ing firm defin­ing the future of safe uncrewed air­craft sys­tems and AAM oper­a­tion. 

UAM Geo­mat­ics of Wash­ing­ton DC will per­form pas­sen­ger, cost, and rev­enue fore­cast­ing, geospa­tial map­ping and ver­ti­port net­work loca­tion map­ping in the State of São Paulo. NEXA Cap­i­tal Part­ners, also of Wash­ing­ton DC, will pro­vide the infra­struc­ture invest­ment nec­es­sary to build ver­ti­ports.