Intermoney | ACS, through its US subsidiary Flatiron, will undertake the reconstruction of a runway at Dallas’ second airport, Love Field. The contract budget is 103 Mn€, and the works will comprise, amongst other projects, reshaping the concrete pavement and reforming the taxiway parallel to this runway. Love Field has an estimated annual passenger traffic of 17 million, not counting the pandemic effect, and serves as an operations hub for Southwest Airlines.

Amazon will charge from April all companies that sell their products in Spain, including more than 9,000 Spanish SMEs, the recently launched “Google tax.” This will be a burden for the big technology companies of 3% of their revenues from their digital services in the country. In other words, if a company sells a product for €100 through Amazon, and the reference price is 15%, the platform would apply 3% to that 15%, thus charging 0.45% more, i.e. 15.45%.

The Spanish economy fell by 11% in 2020 as a result of pandemic’s impact on activity, an unprecedented slump in peacetime. It is also the largest annual contraction since statistical data has been recorded, thus ending six consecutive years of growth, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The fall of the economy in 2020 is slightly below that forecast by the Government (11.2%).