Infraero, inserted in the global context as one the components of cargo transportation, begins to attend airport as a system, an passing corridor through which transit not only passenger but cargo as well.

Additionally to manage 67 Airports and 80 Air Navigation Supporting Units, Infraero has within its structure a Network of Cargo Logistic Logistics Terminal –TECA Network, spread out throughout the national territory. Storage and foremanship services for imported, exports, and domestic (carried within the Country) and express (courier) cargo are rendered in them, while of the 34 TECAs of the Network, 30 operate with imports; 24 with exports, 15 with Domestic Cargo, and 4 with Courier.

Infraero, as a major link of the logistics chain, exerts the role of legal depositary for the Federal Revenue Service, taking care for cargo custody until its delivery to importer.

Agility and Technology

In order to control cargo, Infraero Cargo uses TECAplus System developed to manage cargo logistic routing within Terminals. Volumes stored in this system get an adhesive label with bar code where major information is inserted. This tool targets cargo automation and address updating, making the moving and location process much faster.

Professionals with optical reading devices “scan” the cargo from a specific sector and “download” these information in the TECAplus System where physical location of cargo is, then, mapped. This system reduces waiting time for cargo reception and it eliminates the possibility of losing goods inside the terminals.

Safety

In order to assure total safety for cargo, TECAs are provided with personnel and vehicles access control systems. Terminals are equipped with Closed Circuit TV– CFTV, with daily 24 hours monitoring, armed surveillance, X-rays and metal detecting devices.

Investments

Infraero, aware of the Country’s economic growth and its impacts in exports and imports, keeps an extensive and continued Investment Plan in its entire Cargo Logistics Terminals network.  Therefore, for the period 2011-2015, the Enterprise will invest R$ 708.6 million in building new Structured Modulated Terminals, procuring new equipment, rehabilitation, expansion, adequacy, and modernization of its logistic complexes.