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Orissa's Dhamra Port
TransportThe eastern Indian state of Orissa reached financial close for a greenfield all-weather deep port at a location north of River Dhamra signing a loan agreement with a consortium of lenders who have agreed to part-finance the project cost of US$565 million
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QGTC/Nakilat - the largest LNG shipping deal ever
Oil & Gas MENANakilat Inc's US$4.3 billion LNG vessel financing is the latest big ticket deal to have reached financial close bolstering Qatar's impressive efforts to monetise gas from its giant North Field in the Persian Gulf. The transaction is the first of two insta
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Ostregion Vienna A5 Motorway
Transport EuropeA brand new financing model, a team of international players and a tense bidding process make up for a groundbreaking deal in Europe - the €978 million Ostregion PPP Package 1 road project, Austria's first pure PPP
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El Dorado: Peru's Cerro Corona Gold Mine
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaThe financial close of South African miner Gold Fields Limited's (GFL) US$340 million Cerro Corona gold and copper mining project sets down the latest milestone in the project financed metals mining boom
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Reliance Rail US$2.8 billion rolling stock PPP
Transport Asia PacificAfter a two-year bidding process Australian developers and financiers have closed the country's largest PPP deal so far - the Reliance Rail PPP
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Karur-Dindigul highway Project
TransportThe Karur-Dindigul highway project is part of major improvement works to India's national highways costing US$83.5 million (INR 373.32 crore) under a PPP model
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Seosuwon-Osan-Pyungtaek Expressway
Transport Asia PacificMacquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund has closed a US$130 million transport transaction in Korea - the north-Asian country is opening great investment possibilities for project finance in transport and other sectors, after going through an intense phase leg
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EDL's gas-to-energy refinancing
Renewables Asia PacificEnergy Developments Ltd (EDL) has closed the refinancing of its 10 operational English landfill gas-to-energy (GTE) sites, taking advantage of an improved power market and international hunger for such debt
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Ontario's Prince Wind I and II
Renewables North AmericaAfter getting off to a flying start in the mid-90s, Canada's wind energy industry hit a something of a trough coming into the new millennium. But the last three years or so have seen the sector rally
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£160 million refinancing of Swindon hospital
Social & Defence EuropeThe issue of refinancing hospitals last week has seen Bank of Scotland PFI experts breaking the ice after a two-year stalemate, with the £160 million (US$300m) refinancing of Swindon hospital
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Limerick road tunnel
Transport EuropeLimerick road tunnel is one of the largest infrastructure projects to close to date in Ireland and has set a benchmark for global transport projects for an interesting financing structure involving the first use of a conduit facility - writes Angus Leslie
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M6 Birmingham Expressway refinancing
Transport EuropeRunning the UK's first real toll road was always likely to require a delicate balance of private commercial nous and public tact - and so it has proved.
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Viridis landfill gas portfolio
Renewables EuropeSpring 2006 saw the Viridis Clean Energy Group - an Australian investment fund - secure ownership of a portfolio of power plants fueled with landfill gas in England, Scotland and Wales. By the end of the summer, Viridis had tied up project financing for t
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Interoceanica Norte real toll road
Transport Latin AmericaA thriving South American market has just added a unique bond financing deal to its continental portfolio - the US$213 IIRSA Norte bond, issued to finance a road connecting the Peru coast with the Amazon region
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Essen’s proton therapy centre – Germany’s first health PPP
Social & Defence EuropeEssen university hospital's groundbreaking proton therapy centre in north western Germany closed in early summer as the first signed PPP deal in the country's health sector
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UK MoD's £1.15bn Northwood PPP
Social & Defence EuropeThe £1.15 billion contract for the redevelopment, management and operation of facilities at the Northwood Headquarters site outside London stands out as a deal that signals the continued rise of UK ministry of defence PPP sector
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Tel Aviv 431 shadow toll highway
Transport MENAThe Israeli project finance market has come of age with the close of the country's largest deal to date - the US$400 million financing of the 431 highway, the southern section of the Tel Aviv ring road
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IJ half year 2006 transport review
TransportIJ Reseach & Analysis' half year tables show a 2.5 times growth in transport project finance on the first half of 2005 - IJ features editor Simon Ellis and research associate Vander Caceres explain the trends driving the sector.
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Scotland's South Lanarkshire schools PFI
Social & Defence EuropeThe UK's largest schools PFI for Scotland's South Lanarkshire council closed on 29 June 2006 with a record-breaking education bond issue worth up to £352.2 million (US$650m)