Finance & Funding

June 18, 2015
Italian civil engineering group Astaldi has underwritten a €4.5 billion (US$5 billion) loan towards the Turkish motorway project of Gebze-Orhangazi-…
June 17, 2015
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing financial support for a key Finnish highway project, which will be run on a PPP basis. The EIB is…
June 11, 2015
In the UK, Kier Group has completed its purchase of Mouchel, the infrastructure repair and maintenance provider. The deal worth just more than €364…
June 10, 2015
Russia’s road building programme looks set to be cut due to economic issues - Eugene Gerden writes The Russian Government is considering a…
June 9, 2015
The government of the Saratov region (Volga) is considering building another bridge over the Volga River between Saratov and Engels. No details of…
June 9, 2015
Almost one year after work started on Mexico’s Atizapan-Atlacomulco highway, little progress appears to have been made. OHL Mexico, a subsidiary of…
June 9, 2015
Slovakia’s national motorway company NDS has put out to tender two sections of the D1 motorway near Presov and Kosice. Both tenders have been…
June 9, 2015
The Detroit River is short, only 45km, and narrow in places, less than 1km. Around a quarter of the annual $658 billion Canada-US trade crosses over…
June 8, 2015
No sooner had senior managers told a roomful of journalists that corporate restructuring is on track, news followed that Volvo Group’s chief…
June 8, 2015
Proposals to construct the Sunda Strait Bridge are not feasible, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia. Safety risks…
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