Macaé Airport promotes meeting to develop regional logistics

Macaé Airport promotes meeting to develop regional logistics

22 July 2021

Zurich Airport Brasil, the concessionaire responsible for Macaé Airport, prepared a meeting between the 21st and 22nd of July with representatives of Azul Linhas Aéreas, with the aim of integrating managers on the city's potential, the relevance of the oil market, gas and energy for the local economy, the various attractions that the region has, in addition to getting to know the airport's complete infrastructure and business expansion plan.

The 1st Azul Day, as the event was called, was created to promote the region's vocation and its various possibilities, including air logistics to leverage the local industry, in line with the administrator's continuous investment in the airport complex.

“Our strategy is to consolidate Macaé Airport as the main logistics hub for the oil, gas and energy industry in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro. We have an efficient infrastructure to serve the offshore market and commercial flights, such as Azul's. We are going to use all the facilities and powers that Macaé already has and offers and increasingly build a structure and services for this important industry, based on safety, quality and efficiency”, said the Director of Operations at Zurich Airport Brasil, Fábio Marques. .

Currently, the airport already offers flights 3x a week to Santos Dumont Airport and as of August 9, this offer will be 5x a week, from Monday to Friday. A route that allows the connection to several Brazilian cities.

For a complete integration, representatives of the City Hall, with the Secretariat of Economic Development and Secretariat of Tourism, Vale Azul Group (Vale Azul, Tepor and Clima); the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); from Firjan - Macaé; from Rethinking Macaé; and the IADC (International Association of Drilling Companies) and the Macaé Convention & Visitors Bureau.

“We are sectors united in favor of the same objective, the development of the region. We have enormous potential and we have Zurich Airport Brasil as an excellent partner in this same mission. This was an excellent initiative and another reinforcement of raising the city's potential on the national scene” reinforced Isabel Tunas, president of the Macaé Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The institutions that participated in the meeting show that the demand for the coming years will grow. According to the IADC, Brazil will lead in Latin America in spending on development in the area of ​​oil drilling, around U$ 190 billion, and Macaé is among the two cities that will most receive this investment, among them are new units of ship production. The Convention & Visitors Bureau also added important data: there will be 3 new oil extraction platforms implemented by 2023, in addition to Macaé having an important thermoelectric hub. There are 11 thermoelectric plants licensed or in process.

“These were enriching meetings that allowed us to learn more about this beautiful city full of potential. We are happy to operate here and have already announced the increase in frequency, with 5 flights per week starting on August 09th”, said Azul’s Mesh Planning Manager, Beatriz Barbi.