Colón Airport Not Being Leveraged

A year after the arrival of a company that promised to offer air cargo services from Enrique Jiménez airport, authorities have not yet approved its operating certificate.

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Prensa.com reports that "...This wait has cost the company more than $1.2 million between payroll payments and rental of the air terminal (about $4 thousand a month), not counting the cost of leasing the Antonov 26 aircraft. With this aircraft, the company will transport cargo from and to the Colón Free Zone to 20 routes in Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean."

Transporte Aéreo de Carga del Caribe (Taeca) agreed in August of last year to rent a space in the airport in Colon and "... its projection was that it would begin operations a month later. A year later, the company is still waiting for the authorities to approve its certificate of operation."

The problem now is that due to the little demand that was seen in the first years of operation of the airport, which was inaugurated in 2013, Tocumen S.A. has decided to withdraw the customs and migration offices, leaving them operational only for domestic flights.

"... The idea of creating a cargo airline came from a group of ZLC entrepreneurs as an option for reactivating the depressed commercial activity at the site, which in 2016 closed with a turnover of $19 billion and a contraction of 35% compared to the $30 billion recorded in 2012."

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