TRANSPORTATION
Blending private and public finance
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Blending private and public finance into viable deal structures. We combine government and multilateral grants, loans and guarantees with commercial finance to create bankable structures that deliver government policy objectives and appropriate risk-adjusted returns for investors. We work with governments and multilateral agencies to develop creditworthy publicly financed payments to private investors, to reduce risk and increase total finance to projects.
TIFIA Portsmouth Bypass PPP Advisory, USA
Castalia assessed the creditworthiness of a highway project to relieve congestion in Ohio, and recommended approving private financing. Due to fiscal, the Ohio Department of Transportation sought private funding help with the Portsmouth Bypass project, requesting a loan of US$230 million from the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA). Read more
Feasibility and Structuring of Ninh Binh—Bai Vot Expressway, Vietnam
Castalia helped the Government of Vietnam assess and structure the country’s first-planned expressway PPP. Slow, congested inter-city roads hindered mobility and development, and fiscal constraints limited options for public funding of highways. Read more
Services
Introducing competition to the provision of public services, by helping governments evaluate the benefits of competition in providing public services ... Read more
Regulatory regimes for access to bottleneck infrastructure, such as ports and airport access rules. We assist regulated service providers and ... Read more
Setting tariffs for transport projects in both transaction and regulatory setting. For expressways and public transportation, we consider willingness to ... Read more
Government monitoring, managing and accounting for fiscal risks arising from PPP in the transport sector, by modeling contingent liabilities arising ... Read more
Identifying projects that could be developed with private finance- both for governments and investors. We also help them calculate how ... Read more
Appraising and diligencing projects and brownfield investments, using economic and financial models to forecast benefits, costs and cash flow; determining ... Read more
Appraising and diligencing projects and brownfield investments, using economic and financial models to forecast benefits, costs and cash flow; determining ... Read more
Managing transactions, by supporting governments and investors in sales and acquisitions of major port, airport, expressway, and public transit projects ... Read more
Rethinking how they structure transport projects for private investment. We have developed guidance materials for multilateral development banks and governments, ... Read more
