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August 2008
The debt facility backing Transport for Scotland's £200 million 30-year M80 DBFO concession has banks in place and is expected to close shortly
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Syndication of the 13.5 year Eu336 million ($495 million) debt backing the Sabiha Gokcen Airport project in Istanbul has launched
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OHL has closed a second bridge loan to finance its five federal roads concessions in Brazil
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The £2.21 billion ($4.04 billion) loan backing Babcock & Brown's takeover of Angel Trains from RBS has signed after closing oversubscribed
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has shortlisted all six of the bidders for a proposed lease of the Alligator Alley
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation has prequalified all three of the bidders
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The $123 million-equivalent naira-denominated 12-year project debt backing the Lekki-Epe Expressway PPP project in Nigeria will reach financial close
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The tender for the Rp13 billion ($300 million) Ennore Port terminal project in India has been delayed by a legal challenge to the shortlisting procedure.
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The UK Competition Commission has suggested that Ferrovial sell three of its subsidiary BAA's airports.
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The government of New South Wales, Australia, has selected Ernst & Young and Macquarie as financial advisers on its approximately A$12 billion ($10.4 billion) Sydney north-west metro project.
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is to hold an information meeting to discuss a PPP concession of the unfinished Mon-Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway tolled highways near Pittsburgh.
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation has received three responses to its request for qualifications for a 50-yearconcession of a new airport-link toll road in Jackson.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority have issued a request for qualifications for a new container terminal concession.
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The Serbian government is said to be seeking up to Eu1.7 billion ($2.5 billion) in multilateral financing from the EIB and IFC for a number of rail and roads projects across the country.
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The Andhra Pradesh government in India has awarded the 35-year concession for the Hyderabad metro to a consortium of Nava Bharat (27%), Maytas Infrastructure (25%) and the Ital-Thai Development Company (5%) and Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (5%).
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Seven out of nine bidding consortia have been shortlisted for the $1.5 billion, 30-year concession to operate St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in Russia.
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The Province of British Columbia in Canada is due to award its Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1 concession to BC Connect, a consortium of Macquarie, Kiewit and Flatiron.
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The Connect Plus consortium and its financial adviser HSBC are reviewing first bids from around 40 banks to finance the £5billion 30-year M25 expansion concession.
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A Turkish-French consortium comprising Cengiz, Makyol, Dogus and Vinci has offered the shortest concession period for the Bosphorus car tunnel PPP - 19 years according to local reports
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The £2.2 billion ($4.2 billion) UK facility backing the acquisition of Angel Trains by a consortium led by Babcock & Brown European
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The Tennessee Department of Transportation has decided not to build the Knoxville Parkway as a toll road.
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Norwegian shipping operator Stolt-Nielsen has closed a $625 million financing for eight parcel tankers.
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Pinfra has won a Ps770 million ($78 million) concession
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The Olympia Odos consortium - comprising Vinci (36%), Hochtief PPP Solutions (25%), Aktor Concessions (18%), J&P-Avax (18%) and Athena (3%) has reached financial close on the Eu1.8 billion ($2.75 billion) debt backing the Eu2.1 billion Elefsina-Patras-Tsakona toll road
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The signing of the framework agreement for the Eu3.5 billion Sprska motorway concessions in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been put back until after the summer holidays.
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The North Carolina Turnpike Authority plans to issue a draft request for proposals to shortlisted bidders on the mid-Currituck Bridge PPP
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Global Infrastructure partners and Texas Pacific Group have made a A$2.9 billion) $2.7 billion offer for Asciano
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Six bidding groups have prequalified for the Eu2 billion Bar-Boljare motorway in Montenegro: Bouygues, Intertoll and DTP; Strabag and Colas; Alpine, Bau, Porr and Osijek Koteks; Aktor Concessions; Israel's Housing and Construction Holding.
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Texas Department of Transportation has pushed back the deadline for bid submissions for two of its toll road concessions.
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The Government of Western Australia has selected Oakajee Port and Rail (OPR) as the preferred proponent