Mariscal Sucre International Airport | Ecuador The original Mariscal Sucre International Airport served the Quito, Ecuador, area for more than 50 years. As the city’s principal aviation facility, the airport handled an average of 6 million passengers and 164,000 metric tons in its ?nal years of activity. Challenge By 2013, Mariscal Sucre International Airport had reached capacity. Furthermore, given its location in the middle of a city, and surrounded by the Andes, the facility could not be expanded to accommodate additional travelers or freight. Solution Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Servicios Aeroportuarios y Gestión de Zonas Francas y Regímenes Especiales selected Louis Berger to manage the construction of a new green?eld airport, the ?rst in Latin America, to replace the former avia

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