Bruno Alves
The government has launched a pre-qualification notice for the 30-year public-private partnership to upgrade and manage Bamako-Sénou airport. The contract will be worth about €100m with interested parties to submit their qualifications by July 30.
The UK government has suspended procurement for the Search and Rescue Helicopter private finance initiative project, awarded to an RBS/Thales consortium, because of a spending review. The review also threatens numerous projects awarded in a school-building initiative, where the UK believes it ‘has been overcommitted’.
The Greek finance ministry has announced its intention to float its 55% stake in the concessionaire that runs Athens International Airport in a deal that could be worth over €1bn. Hotchief and the Australian Infrastructure Fund own the remainder of the concessionaire.
The Australian investor, together with French developer Eiffage, has spent close to €854m to acquire a 14% holding in French road network APRR. This brings their ownership of the 2,234-km road network to over 95%.
The bank has completed the synthetic securitisation of European infrastructure loans worth £233m. It has transferred most of the credit risk through a guaranteed tranche within the deal, funded by a single institutional investor. The bank is keeping the first-loss tranche and the bigger unhedged senior tranche.
Five financial institutions have got behind the Flemish region’s landmark schools deal, which packages the construction and operation of 211 schools under a single PPP contract - awarded to a consortium of Fortis Real Estate and BNP Paribas Fortis.
Italian infrastructure fund F2i is bidding for Ferrovial’s 65% stake in Naples airport in a deal that could net the Spanish infrastructure group up to €200m. F2i's bid is one of several 'spontaneous' offers for Naples airport.
Deloitte warns the austerity measures being implemented across Europe pose ‘a real danger that the wider industry surrounding infrastructure development will shrink considerably’.
The VND3.3 trillion BOT deal to expand the National Highway 51 reached financial close on Monday with VND2.4 trillion in debt funding from six local banks. The bank loan covers 72% of the deal with the winning consortium providing the remaining 28% in equity.
The Spanish infrastructure group has received several offers for its 65% stake in Naples airport in a deal that could net the company up to €200m.