OEC to make further improvements to Miami airport’s baggage handling system

The North-American branch of OEC has just earned yet another project at Miami’s international airport, a development that includes a series of expansions carried out by the Brazilian company over more than 27 years. After it was finished in 2021, a complete overhaul of the baggage system, transforming it into one of the most modern in the country, now OEC has been contracted to interconnect the system between the South and Central terminals. Construction will begin in January 2023.

According to Luiz Simon, OEC’s director in the USA, this is a complex project of high relevance to airlines and airport users. “The entire intervention will be done without bringing the current system to a standstill, since we are working at the the airport with the largest number of international passengers in the United States” he says. The construction will demand close coordination with various authorities, from the Miami County Aviation Department, to federal agencies, to the numerous airlines operating there.

OEC has a vast history of interventions in equipment projects completed at the Miami airport. In the 2000s, it took part in a joint venture responsible for the expansion of the airport’s North and South terminals by more than 140 thousand square meters, in a project that received investments of US$ 1,6 billion, at the time, and employed about 2 thousand people. It then participated in the construction of the MIAMover, a 1.6 km extension. In 2018, it started the execution of the modernization of the airport’s baggage system, which will now be interconnected in two terminals.

First Brazilian construction company to win a public contract in the United States, in 1991, OEC is responsible for the construction of some of Miami’s architectural icons, such as the Adrienne Arsht Arts Center, Arena where the Miami Heat play basketball, the elevated Golden Glades Interchange, Florida International University Stadium, and the Port of Miami modernization, among other projects.