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Groupe ADP and GMR have announced today the execution of their Industrial Partnership, demonstrating their intent to cooperate with each other and a shared global vision for the airport sector. This marks a new significant step into building the world's largest airport alliance to welcome passengers and leverage both groups’ expertise to continuously improve operations.

Groupe ADP and GMR Group GMR have signed an Industrial partnership on July 23, 2021. The objective of this Strategic Partnership is to leverage on each party's expertise and resources, with a view to improve service level and product offering to passengers and airlines.

In a unique post Covid context, Groupe ADP and GMR want to further strengthen their cooperation to identify areas of synergy and seize new opportunities to improve efficiency and define world class new, safe standards of experience for the passengers.

This agreement will thus enhance and accelerate their cooperation to leverage on each others strengths, and to add value to both companies in their entire network of airports and explore new business avenues.

To do so, some of the areas this Industrial partnership will focus on include

  1. Sustainability, through common objectives to reduce the footprint of the industry, by leveraging, for instance, through DIALs ACI Level 4 plus Transition accreditation or H2 initiative.
  2. Passenger experience, notably through implementing Smart Airports innovations and experience.
  3. Airport Operations, by enhancing throughput and capacity on existing and future platforms,
  4. Information Technology Innovation, by synergizing the capabilities of both group in various areas such as cybersecurity, block chain architecture, joint IT solutions, etc. with access to the development ecosystem across Europe and India;
  5. Airport Services and Offerings: by driving high levels of service standards and possible opportunities for co operation
  6. Design, Engineering and Project Management: Identifying synergies across the rich and complementary capabilities across Design, Engineering and Maintenance, Project Management & Construction Expertise across the portfolio of the Alliance as well as to provide services to third parties.

Mr GBS Raju, Chairman Airports, GMR Group, said, “The industrial partnership between GMR and ADP has been conceived to build an unparalleled airport alliance in the world that builds on the combined experience of ADP and GMR of handling more than 325 million passengers annually. Together, we seek to bring unique experiences and concepts to the aviation industry that will build upon the combined expertise, innovation and vision of both partners. We believe this partnership will strengthen our respective airport platforms and enhance our competitiveness to seek opportunities for profitable growth for both ADP and GMR”

Mr Augustin de Romanet, Chairman and CEO of Aeroports de Paris SA - ADP Group, states about the signing of the Industrial Partnership In a unique context, Groupe ADP and GMR keep on their engagement to build the largest and most responsible airports alliance in the world, on behalf of their passengers and stakeholders. This Industrial partnership will allow us to systematically explore and seize the opportunities to design the future of our industry with the ambition to set up the highest standards in terms of performance, operations, hospitality and sustainability. This signature is also a recognition of the engagement and dedication of both companies’ staffs to implement a shared vision".

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