TRANSPORTATION
Developing projects and pipelines
We help clients with…
Identifying projects that could be developed with private finance – both for governments and investors. We also help them calculate how to maximize the value of each dollar invested in improving transportation. Our advice has helped governments think about ways to increase investment in transportation subsectors, like free-access highways and urban roads, and how to prioritize existing project pipelines. We also share our knowledge of sectors and governments with investors, to increase interest in projects and to channel investment to projects and countries where investors can benefit.
PPP Project Screening and Prioritization for Kenya
Castalia identified a set of 15 first-mover PPP projects across 6 sectors from the Government of Kenya’s existing PPP pipeline and new candidate projects. We trained government officials on PPP project preparation, evaluation, and coordination processes. Despite an improved framework for PPPs, PPP projects in Kenya were not reaching financial close. The Government of Kenya was incurring costs in preparing projects, and people in Kenya were not receiving essential infrastructure services. Read more
Developing a Pipeline for a Private Infrastructure Fund, Ghana
Castalia helped Meridiam Africa identify investment opportunities in Ghana’s infrastructure sectors. Read more
PPP Transportation List for Vietnam
We developed a screening tool and financial model to help the PPP Unit in Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport to identify, screen, and prioritize potential PPP projects. The Government of Vietnam sought to procure highway, rail, seaport, and airport projects to relieve an infrastructure bottleneck, but a financing gap inhibited progress. 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
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
Blending private and public finance into viable deal structures. We combine government and multilateral grants, loans and guarantees with commercial ... 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
