Hochtief AirPort is an airport management company headquartered in Essen

Essen

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. The company was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of the international construction service provider Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft.

As an airport manager Hochtief AirPort acquires shareholdings in private airports and - working together with the other shareholders - operates these as independent commercial enterprises. HTA not only supports the operational and commercial management of its airport holdings, but also provides services to other airports, e.g. acting as an international transaction manager or drawing up master plans as construction project and sustainability manager.

Airports

• Athens International Airport together with the investment partnership HTAC more than 40 percent, since 1996 (management since 2001)
• Budapest Airport, 37.25 percent (75 percent (minus one share) via a consortium in which Hochtief AirPort holds a 49.67 percent shareholding), since 2007
• Düsseldorf International (incl. HTAC shareholding), since 1998 (the first privatization of an airport in Germany)
• Hamburg Airport
  Hamburg Airport
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   49 percent (incl. HTAC shareholding), since 2000,
• Sydney Airport
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   13.28 percent (incl. HTAC shareholding), since 2002
• Tirana International Airport 47 percent, since 2005

In addition, Hochtief AirPort also has a participating interest in the British consultancy company Transport & Logistics Consultancy Ltd.

Competitors

Rival businesses in the international airport management sector include Frankfurt based Fraport

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, the Spanish

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 company Ferrovial

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 and the Australia

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n Macquarie Airports

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company.