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Blood banks

Blood banks

Going local

Going local

Pump up the volume

Pump up the volume

MENA report: Making the margin

MENA report: Making the margin

MENA report: Call roaming

MENA report: Call roaming

MENA report: What price chemicals?

MENA report: What price chemicals?

Rizziconi Energia CCGT

After the fireworks of the early part of the decade and subsequent lull, the liberalised Italian power market is finally starting to bear fruit.

Rabigh refining and petrochemical project

PETRORabigh's US$5.8 billion financing is the largest project financing ever to take place in Saudi Arabia and gave a substantial shot in the arm to the country's efforts to become the next big thing on the project finance scene

Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid: Spain’s flagship PFI hospital

The Puerta de Hierro hospital near Madrid closed on 24 February 2006 as Spain's first-ever PFI hospital deal. As the first such project to close - and be awarded - in the whole of Spain, the hospital in Majadahonda serves not only as a template for the se

Thailand's Ratchaburi IPP - a power project of its time

Almost nine years after the financial crisis ripped through the southeast Asian 'tigers', Thailand has bounced back to a situation of relative economic stability - reflected in healthy economic growth rates of 6 per cent, total FDI of some US$7.5bn in 200

Golden Ears Bridge PPP, Canada

Greater Vancouver's Can$1.04bn Golden Ears Bridge DBFO has turned out to be the single most remarkable P3 schemes to have closed in Canada. It serves as a beacon on a provincial and national level as well as standing alone as a groundbreaker in the North

The first wave of French prison PPPs

France's groundbreaking PPP prison construction programme got off to a flying at the end of February with the swift close of the first wave of projects, soon to be followed by the second and third such deals. It closed swiftly and with two French banks ac

ASAlliances Biofuels Ethanol portfolio

Ethanol has long been seen as the country cousin of conventional fuels such as petroleum and diesel, but things are changing fast.

Qatargas 3 - integrated gas production and LNG project

With a total project value of US$5.8 billion, Qatargas 3 (QG3) is just the latest in a succession of huge LNG projects to have closed in Qatar over the last few years

Northampton Schools PFI – On the road to BSF

Northampton's £235m (US$412m) deal was the last major education PFI to be procured before the launch of the BSF (Building Schools for the Future) programme. As one of the last conventional PFI secondary education deals to be closed and given its sheer siz

Full steam ahead on Saudi IWPPs

When Saudi Arabia's Water and Electricity Company (WEC) announced its intention to launch tenders for what would be the world's greatest IWPP, there were some who doubted whether the project would get off the ground