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Asia Connect
There was a healthy deal flow in infrastructure financing in Asia-Pacific in 2022, particularly in the renewable energy, telecommunications and transport sectors. Hybrid renewable energy projects are increasingly being bid out in markets such as Australia, India and Taiwan as they provide longer-duration energy generation or even round-the-clock (RTC) solutions.
24 May 2023
Last year was exceptionally busy for infrastructure financing, with project finance teams at major banks working at full capacity on a range of deals from wind and solar power plants to airports, railways and roads. One new category asset that features prominently in The Asset Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2023 is electricity connectors, with large-scale financings in Abu Dhabi, New York State, the United Kingdom-Germany and Saudi Arabia-Egypt. More are on the way. As the installed capacity of renewable energy grows rapidly, it makes sense to have power flowing across borders in either direction, depending on wind and solar production and electricity demand at any particular time of day.
24 May 2023
By 2025, country will make 20% of all iPads and Apple Watches, 5% of MacBooks, 65% of AirPods
18 May 2023
BOC Aviation has delivered the first of 11 new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft for lease to Lynx Air. All 11 aircraft are part of the company’s existing order book and will be powered by CFM LEAP-1B engines.
17 May 2023
The board of directors of Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) has voted to approve US$99.7 million of support for the expansion and upgrade of Pertamina’s Balikpapan refinery on Borneo Island in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
17 May 2023
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) have signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation on early-stage private sector infrastructure investments in the Asia-Pacific region.
17 May 2023
Pattern Energy, through its Japanese affiliate Green Power Investment Corporation (GPI), has started operating its 113-megawatt Sumita Tono wind farm in the mountainous area between the municipalities of Tono and Sumita in Iwate Prefecture.
17 May 2023
Westconnect GmbH has signed a €1.3 billion (US$1.42 billion) financing package for the expansion of its fibre optic network in western Germany. T
17 May 2023
The first in-person annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank following three years of virtual gathering shows the region’s resilience but also plenty of worries about troubles further afield
10 May 2023
Watson Farley & Williams has advised shipping lender Danish Ship Finance (DSF) on a US$100 million term loan facility granted to companies under the Diana Shipping Group for the refinancing of nine vessels, with a maturity date in April 2028.
10 May 2023
Italian energy company Snam will start operating a floating terminal for liquefied natural gas at the port of Piombino in Tuscany at the end of May.
10 May 2023
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Modec, a Tokyo-based supplier and operator of offshore floating platforms, will proceed with the engineering, construction and installation of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for ExxonMobil’s Uaru project in Guyana.
10 May 2023
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