04DEC24 "The expansion project for Quito's Mariscal Sucre International Airport, which involves a multimillion-dollar investment, is 32% complete, with plans to be fully inaugurated by the end of 2025.
With this project, Corporación Quiport expects to receive 7.5 million passengers per year; at present, 5.4 million are transported. The project involves a total investment of $74.2 million, explained Diego Álvarez, Infrastructure and Engineering manager of the airport.
The project includes an extension of the terminal building by 17,000 square metres . The platform will also be extended by 35,000 square metres. Currently, the area where the planes are parked is 100,000 m2.
The expansion of the passenger terminal includes four levels:
Level 0: Expansion of technical rooms and warehouses for terminal suppliers.
Level 1: Expansion of the public arrivals hall, baggage claim area, increase in the capacity of the international baggage carousels (from two to three), reconfiguration of the Customs area, expansion of the duty-free shop and the baggage handling system.
Level 2: Expansion of the public departure hall, passenger check-in area with 20 new counters and 12 self-check-in machines, pre-boarding lounge for 350 passengers, expansion of the international departure duty-free shop and new food and beverage areas.
Level 3: expansion of the international VIP lounge, which currently measures 950 square metres, to nearly 2,000, with capacity to accommodate 200 people.
With the expansion of the platform, there will be more space for 'type E' aircraft, which are the largest, for long-distance flights, and for 'type C' aircraft, which are smaller in scale, explained the Infrastructure Manager.
The terminal expansion project is being carried out by Ekron Construcciones and the terminal expansion by Tracto Repuestos. The supervisory company is Icorp. Around 400 people are working on the project. Currently, the airport receives about 5.4 million passengers a year.
The expansion is expected to accommodate 7.5 million passengers, said Ramón Miró, president of Corporación Quiport, the airport's concessionaire."
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01JUL25 - SOUTHCOM’s TMPI: Towards Integrated Deterrence in the Americas by Building Maintenance Capacity- #ECUADOR - "Analyzing Ecuador’s foreign policy trajectory over the past two decades is pertinent to illuminating the region’s evolving political and security landscape. During President Rafael Correa’s administration between 2007 and 2017, Ecuador pivoted by severing its military relations with the US.
This comprehensive shift included ordering the closure of the security cooperation office in the US Embassy and honoring but not renewing the lease term for the Manta Air Base, causing the withdrawal of approximately 300 US military personnel stationed there.
However, this period of strained relations was followed by the re-establishment of the Office of Security Cooperation (OSC) in 2018, signaling a potential shift that ultimately materialized with new military cooperation agreements signed with the US in 2023 under President Lasso and ratified in 2024 by President Daniel Noboa. ...
25JUN25 "Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced this Thursday the capture of Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias "Fito ," considered the leader of the Los Choneros organized crime group.
"For those who opposed and doubted the need for the Solidarity and Intelligence laws : thanks to those laws, Fito was captured today and is in the hands of the Security Bloc," the president posted on the social network X.
"We have done our part to proceed with Fito's extradition to the United States , and we await your response. Have a good afternoon, Ecuador," Noboa added.
The criminal leader had been on the run for over a year and a half , after escaping from the Guayaquil Regional Prison and hiding his tracks while the country was engulfed in a spiral of violence, culminating in the brief takeover of a television station.
'Fito,' who was serving a 34-year sentence for organized crime, drug trafficking, and murder , escaped on January 7, 2024, as he was about to be transferred to La Roca, a ...
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