São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport is truly a small city in itself. Every day nearly 100 thousand people pass through the airport, which connects Brazil to 28 countries. There are 370 companies established there generating 53 thousand jobs.

With capacity to serve 15 million passengers a year, in two terminals, the airport currently handles 12 million users. Construction of a third passenger terminal is pending, to raise yearly capacity to 29 million passengers.

The project, in the tendering phase, is part of the airport¿s master plan and will get under way shortly.

São Paulo International Airport is also one of the main air cargo hubs in Brazil. The roughly 100 flights a day carry everything from fruits grown in the São Francisco Valley to the most sophisticated medications created by science.

The airport¿s cargo terminal is South America¿s largest and stands behind only Mexico City¿s in all of Latin America. In 2003, over 75 thousand metric tons of freight passed through the terminal.