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July 2008
Northwest Connect, a consortium led by Bilfinger Berger, has reached financial close on the North Edmonton Ring Road concession.
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The British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has issued a request for qualifications for its South Fraser
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The municipality of Rome, 'Roma Metropolitane', is expected to launch an official tender for the Metro Line D concession imminently.
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Hermes Infraestructura has closed the Ps1.1 billion ($110 million) debt financing of the Libramiento Iraputo
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The consortium of Abertis and Citi Infrastructure Investors (CII) has extended its preferred bid
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The Port of Oakland has shortlisted five bidders for a concession of its outer terminal.
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Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has received six responses to its reissued request for qualifications for a proposed concession of the Alligator Alley toll road.
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The consortium of Goldman Sachs Global Infrastructure Partners and ICA has issued a request for proposals to banks to underwrite a bond refinancing for its Ps44 billion ($4.3 billion) FARAC roads concession in Mexico.
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The A1 Mobil consortium - comprising Bilfinger Berger, John Laing and Johann Bunte - has reached financial close on the DBFO PPP project to widen the A1 motorway between Bremen and Hamburg in Germany.
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Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has received three bids for its Dallas-Fort Worth Connector project.
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Gdansk Transport Company (GTC) - a consortium comprising Skanska BOT (30%), Laing Roads (29.6%), Intertoll (15%) and NDI (25.4%) - and the Polish government have initialled the construction agreement
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The Eu600 million M6 phase 2 motorway PPP project has reached financial close.
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Two consortia have submitted financial and technical bids for the Rs.14.4 billion ($340 million) Phase 1 of the Mumbai Monorail project
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Macquarie's Arlanda Express concession - the 39km rail link between Stockholm and the city airport - closed its third refinancing on 30 June in a Eu127 million ($200 million)deal arranged by RBS with WestLB and Depfa participating
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Prequalification for the Notre-Dame-des-Landes 55-year airport concession are due by September 19
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CCR is due to close the financing for its $515 million São Paulo metro line project at the end of July 2008.
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The request for qualification for the $2.5 billion 25 year availability-based Mafraq-Ghweifat PPP road upgrade concession - Abu Dhabi's first road PPP - has been
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The A$3.15 billion ($3 billion) 10-year syndicated term loan supporting BrisConnections' - a consortium comprising Leighton, Macquarie Capital, Theiss, John Holland, Arup and PB
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SANRAL, South Africa's national roads agency, has issued R2 billion ($260 million) in four series of bonds
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Citigroup has disbanded its New York energy and infrastructure group
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The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has secured a Eu776 million ($1.22 billion) on-balance sheet facility to finance construction of the new 20km Kadikoy-Kartal Metro, on the Asian side of Istanbul
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FCC and Caja Madrid are set to reach financial close on the acquisition of two Chilean toll roads on 11 July.
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North Carolina's state ports authority has signed a predevelopment agreement with CenterPoint Properties
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The 20-year Eu381 million refinancing of the Zagreb-Macelj motorway PPP is in syndication and is likely to have banks signed in by August.
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Colorado's Denver Regional Transportation District is holding a bidder conference on 30 July 2008 for its East and Gold line light rail PPP project.
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The Port of Oakland has received nine responses to its request for qualifications for its outer harbour terminal 30-year concession.
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BAA formally launched its £7.65 billion ($15.15 billion) syndicated loan last week
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Two consortia are due to submit bids to Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on 21 July 2008 for the I-635/LBJ highway managed lanes project in Texas
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A $7.75 billion loan backing the prospective $12.8 billion 75-year Pennsylvania Turnpike lease concession for sponsors Abertis, CII and Criteria has been launched to senior syndication by
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Partnerships BC expects to receive final bids on 18 July 2008 for the Port Mann bridge and Highway 1 PPP concession
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Abertis, together with Santander Group subsidiary Santander Infrastructure Fund II, have agreed to purchase ACS's stake in two Chilean road concessions, Autopista Central and Rutas del Pacífico, for Eu710.6 million.
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A Vinci-led consortium has been awarded preferred bidder on the Charles De Gaulle Express (CDG Express) rail concession – a new build high-speed rail link between Paris Charles De Gaulle airport and the city.
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The credit crunch is pressuring banks to reduce their project debt books. But there are very few buyers for secondary project finance debt. By Tom Nelthorpe.
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The record pipeline of Saudi project debt will be challenging for local and international lenders. With the dollar/riyal peg complicating an already difficult funding and construction market, diversification will be crucial to deals closing. By Paul Smith.
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The pace of future PPP development, bank and sponsor appetite for a new market and lender security, much hinges on the final concession structure and financing for Russia' flagship road project – the Western High Speed Diameter. By Michael Marray
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The Greek project market – particularly power and PPP – is in a new phase of development. Now Greece's Eu4 billion social infrastructure PPP programme is generating bidder interest. But will the returns on small volume deals match expectation? By Sean Keating.
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Bids were submitted by two consortia for the UK's Intercity Express Programme (IEP) on 30 June.
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Brazil's various concession programmes are finally underway, but sponsors have to decide between pricey Reais and mismatched dollars for funding. Catherine McGuirk talks to sponsors facing the dilemma.
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The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is set to award two concessions for its PR22 highway, as well as an airport parking concession later this year.
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Istanbul closes Kadikoy-Kartal Metro debt