Tahiti: EGIS takes the Papeete airport concession then loses it, for now

France's Egis is a public sector organisation which, like VINCI and Groupe ADP, invests in and manages airports abroad.

Unlike them, Egis is not so well known, possibly because the airports it gets involved with are often small and remote, even though it does have an interest in a sizeable Brazilian airports by way of consortium concession, and has pitched in for others, there in Brazil and in other countries.

Now it has taken on a lengthy concession for the Papeete Faa'a Airport in Tahiti, one that is still influenced by the effects of the pandemic and one that will test its managerial capabilities to the full. Or at least it had until a judge annulled the contract on the basis of alleged rule breaking.