4 Investments and loans

Investments comprised the following as at the reporting date:

Company

 

Domicile

 

Share capital

 

Stake held in %

Airport Ground Services AG 1)

 

Kloten

 

CHF 100,000

 

100.0

Zurich Airport International AG 1)

 

Kloten

 

CHF 100,000

 

100.0

Zurich Airport International Asia Sdn. Bhd. 2)

 

Kuala Lumpur

 

MYR 1.0 million

 

100.0

Yamuna International Airport Private Ltd. 2)

 

New Delhi

 

INR 5,679 million

 

100.0

Concessionária do Aeroporto Internacional de Florianópolis S.A. 2)

 

Florianópolis

 

BRL 304 million

 

100.0

Zurich Airport Latin America Ltda. 2)

 

Rio de Janeiro

 

BRL 578 million

 

100.0

Aeroportos do Sudeste do Brasil S.A. 2)

 

Vitória

 

BRL 571 million

 

100.0

A-port S.A. 2)

 

Santiago de Chile

 

CLP 16,139 million

 

100.0

Sociedad Concesionaria Aeropuerto de Antofagasta S.A. 2)

 

Santiago de Chile

 

CLP 3,600 million

 

100.0

Sociedad Concesionaria Aeropuerto de Iquique S.A. 2)

 

Santiago de Chile

 

CLP 600 million

 

100.0

Sociedad Concesionaria Aeropuerto Diego Aracena S.A. 2)

 

Santiago de Chile

 

CLP 10,700 million

 

100.0

A-port Operaciones S.A. 2)

 

Santiago de Chile

 

CLP 1,352 million

 

99.0

A-port Operaciones Colombia S.A. 2)

 

Bogotá

 

COP 100 million

 

99.0

Unique IDC S.A. de C.V. 2)

 

Tegucigalpa

 

HNL 0.2 million

 

99.0

Sociedade de Participação no Aeroporto de Confins S.A. 2)

 

Belo Horizonte

 

BRL 474 million

 

25.0

Concessionária do Aeroporto Internacional de Confins S.A. 2)

 

Belo Horizonte

 

BRL 907 million

 

12.8

Administradora Unique IDC C.A. 1)

 

Porlamar

 

VEB 25 million

 

49.5

Aeropuertos Asociados de Venezuela C.A. 2)

 

Porlamar

 

VEB 10 million

 

49.5

1) Direct investment.

2) Indirect investment.

The equity interests stated are also the share of the voting power in the investees listed.

As a precautionary measure in connection with the coronavirus crisis, Flughafen Zürich AG established Airport Ground Services AG based in Kloten in financial year 2020. In an emergency, this wholly-owned subsidiary could take over services related to airport operations. The company was inactive at the reporting date.

Zurich Airport International AG, the wholly-owned subsidiary responsible for advising, operating and/or owning airports and airport-related companies throughout the world, holds all the investees existing in this context (with the exception of those in Venezuela).

In 2010, Flughafen Zürich AG and its consortium partner Unique IDC turned to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington D.C. in the matter of the airport expropriated in Venezuela (Isla de Margarita). This step is in compliance with the investment protection treaty between Venezuela, Switzerland and Chile. The ICSID reached its decision in November 2014, requiring the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to reimburse the consortium the costs incurred for the proceedings and project plus a compensation payment of around USD 19.5 million as well as interest incurred up until receipt of payment. Flughafen Zürich AG is entitled to 50% of this. After an application for annulment was rejected, the tribunal’s decision is definitive and final. The value of this holding has been fully impaired.

Loans comprised the following as at the reporting date:

(CHF million)

 

31.12.2021

 

31.12.2020

Loans to Zurich Airport International AG

 

391.5

 

334.5

Valuation allowance for loans to Zurich Airport International AG

 

–75.0

 

–75.0

Total loans

 

316.5

 

259.5

In the previous year, a valuation allowance of CHF 75.0 million was recognised on loans to the subsidiary Zurich Airport International AG. This allowance related primarily to unfavourable exchange rate movements in Brazil (see note 1, Extraordinary result).

As at the reporting date, loans to Zurich Airport International AG in the amount of CHF 150.0 million were subject to terms of subordination (2020: CHF 150.0 million).