TRANSPORTATION
Managing transactions
We help clients with…
Managing transactions, by supporting governments and investors in sales and acquisitions of major port, airport, expressway, and public transit projects. We proactively identify risks and work to prepare transactions that will be commercially viable and maximize value for money for the public sector.
North Luzon – South Luzon Expressway Connector, Philippines
Castalia helped run a “Swiss challenge” competitive procurement process for a new highway in Manila. The Philippines government had received an unsolicited proposal to build an 8km highway in Manila and was required by law to run a competitive procurement process (“Swiss challenge”) to ensure the best-value bid was chosen. Read more
Business Case and Transaction Advisory for Non-Toll Roads in Sumatra, Indonesia
Castalia prepared the business case and procurement documents for two non-tolled highways in East Sumatra. The Government of Indonesia wanted private investors to finance rehabilitation, expansion and maintenance of key links in the national highway network. Read more
Ports PPP Feasibility Study, Ukraine
Castalia helped to develop a viable concession transaction for the Government of Ukraine for the Ports of Olvia and Kherson. Ukraine’s seaports play a key role in export and trade, and the Government intended to involve the private sector to improve the country’s port infrastructure. It needed help to secure a private partner for the country’s first private concession in the port sector. 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
Blending private and public finance into viable deal structures. We combine government and multilateral grants, loans and guarantees with commercial ... Read more
Rethinking how they structure transport projects for private investment. We have developed guidance materials for multilateral development banks and governments, ... Read more
