The Argentine investor group led by the businessman Eduardo Eurnekian is getting ready to submit to the Government an airport development initiative comprising various airports located in the interior of the country.

In this way, Eurnekian Group pretends to expand Business to Uruguay, which started through its successful disembark at  Carrasco International Airport where its Company, Puerta del Sur, invested around 200 million dollars in order to welcome five million passengers/annually which will mean duplicating the current traffic twice.

The Group is trying to submit the initiative to boost Colonia, Salto, Rivera and Rocha Airports before three Ministries – Economics & Finance, Transportation & Public Works and National Defense-
Although they hold the international airport feature, none of them has currently the proper infrastructure to welcome big-size aircraft flights and even less to have aircrafts from the region countries landing there.

Throughout the last Government, the idea of putting out to tender airports has been approved as a strategy of strengthening the airport industry having Carrasco as the regional hub. This is what Eurnekian aimed at when he landed with his investment at the new international airport.

There is no room for doubts regarding the importance of this initiative and the need that from the government Management this investor Group is encouraged since they hold more than enough credentials to carry out these big size works.

Above all, we have to take into account that the above initiatives are perfectly well in line with the ideas of boosting private investment, which were stated so well by President José Mujica in the well-known lunch shared with businessmen held at the Conrad hotel by the end of February. Investment on infrastructure will be of direct advantage to the country not just after completion but also throughout the building process due to a high labor force included in this process.