By Kylie Madry
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Brazilian planemaker Embraer sights Mexico as a prime market for its Super Tucano and C-390 protection airplane, the business’s head stated on Monday.
Embraer CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Francisco Gomes Neto stated that the planemaker, the globe’s third-largest, remained in energetic talks with Mexico’s federal government and had actually brought a C-390 to the nation for presentation trips.
The C-390 is referred to as a multi-mission airplane, and takes on Lockheed’s C-130.
“We believe it can be a great solution for Mexico,” Gomes Neto informed Reuters throughout a browse through to Mexico in advance of inbound President Claudia Sheinbaum’s commencement.
The exec did not claim the amount of of each airplane it was wanting to market to Mexico.
If Mexico were to bind an acquisition of the lighter Super Tucano airplane, which Gomes Neto highlighted for its usage as a training airplane or for boundary monitoring, it would certainly sign up with a variety of various other Latin American nations tightening orders in current months.
Gomes Neto stated that it was likewise considering company jet sales in Mexico, the globe’s third-largest market for such airplane.
“We expect to grow our fleet in Mexico by 11% in the next two years,” he stated.
Embraer bound a $750 million order in June for 20 E2 jetliners to Mexico’s military-run airline Mexicana.
Gomes Neto shook off worries from experts concerning the security of the offer, thinking about Mexicana’s claimed failing to repay a united state service provider.
“We are working with Mexicana very closely, we really want this operation to be a great success to show the market how good the aircraft is,” he stated.
The exec likewise stated that Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena had actually consulted with the company previously this year in Brazil which “she was very positive about the future of Mexicana.”
“Embraer is looking for a win-win situation in doing business with Mexico,” he included.
(Reporting by Kylie Madry in Mexico City)
