MANILA, Philippines - Seven groups led by the country’s
largest business conglomerates, in partnership with key global aviation
players, have placed bids for the P17.5 billion Mactan Cebu International
airport project.
DOTC
Undersecretary Jose Perpetuo Lotilla said the groups that submitted
qualification documents yesterday included the Metro Pacific Investments JG
Summit Airport Consortium, AAA Airport Partners, the Filinvest Land Inc. and
CAI Consortium, San Miguel Corp. and Incheon Airport Consortium, the First
Philippine Airports Consortium, Premier Airport Group of SM Investment Corp.
and the tandem of Indian-owned GMR Infrastructure and Megawide Consortium.
First Pacific’s MPIC of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan
has tied up with Gokongwei’s JG Summit to form MPIC JGS Airport Holdings Inc.
The group has tapped airport experts including French-owned Aeroports de Lyon
and OVE Arup Group.
The AAA Airport
Partners is led by the Ayala and Aboitiz Groups with consortium members
including A2 Airport Partners as well as ADS & HAS Airports Worldwide Inc.
The company has tapped Houston Airports Partners and the OVE Arup Group.
The third group is
the Filinvest-CAI Consortium led by Gotianun’s Filinvest Development Corp. and
its foreign partner Changi Airports MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Pte
Ltd. Partners include Filinvest Land Inc., Filinvest Alabang Inc., Cyberzone
Properties Inc., EEI Corp., Bougues Batiment International, CPG Consultants Pte
Ltd., Woods Bagot Pty Ltd., Meinhardt Philippines Inc., and Changi Airports
Saudi Ltd.
On the other hand, SMC has tied up with International
Airport Corp. to form the SMC-Incheon Airport Consortium that includes SMC’s
Optimal Infrastructure Development Inc., Incheon Airport International Corp.,
Mactan Capitana Holdings Inc., and Skylake Incuvest & Co. Partners are
The First Philippine Airports is a tandem between FPHC
and Wellington-based Infratil Asia Ltd. The group’s partners include Infratil’s
Wellington International Airport Ltd and NZ Airports Ltd as well as Rockwell
Land Inc., Fentress Architects Inc., Buro Happold Consulting Engineers Inc.,
OVE Arup and Partners Hong Kong Ltd, Mott Macdonald Ltd, and First Balfour Inc.
Sy’s Holding firm
SM Investments Corp. leads the Premier Airport Group together with Citadel
Holdings Inc., Zurich Airport International AG, and Prospector Investment
Holdings Inc. Partners include mall developer and operator SM Prime Holdings
Inc., construction giant DM Consunji Inc., and Flughafen Zurich AG.
The final group is
the tandem of GMR Infrastructure Ltd of India and publicly-held Megawide
Construction Corp. Partners include Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd, GMR
Hyderabad International Airport, GMR Airport Developers Ltd, BL Kashyap and
Sons Ltd, Vijay Nirman Co. (P) Ltd, Ove Arup and Partners Hong Kong Ltd, Louis
Berger Group Inc., Foster + Partners, and Mott Macdonald Ltd.
The Mactan-Cebu
airport project involves the construction of a world-class passenger terminal
building with a capacity of eight million passengers a year as well as the
operation and maintenance of the old and new facilities include a 797-hectare
property.
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