Three Foreign Firms To Invest In Hanoi's Urban Railway Network
Three foreign investors and six Vietnamese companies will build urban railway lines in Hanoi as the city revs up its public transport system, Chairman of the Hanoi Peopleâs Committee, Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung, has said.
Transport Bolsters Listed Infrastructure Demand
Australian listed infrastructure offers some of the best quality assets and highly attractive yields, not only across the Asia-Pacific region but on a global scale, an investment specialist says.
Africa Rail Investment: Real Property And Land Value Capture
The African continent will continue to experience major urban development in the coming decades. Such urban development requires improved mass transport and freight-moving systems to support the population growth. Some urban planners even argue that mass transport networks are central to citiesâ ability to control the expansion and better manage property development, while reducing travel times and boosting land values.
Qatar Sovereign Fund Deposited Dollars In Local Banks As Precaution
June 20 Qatar's sovereign wealth fund made U.S. dollar deposits in some local banks last week as a precaution after Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states cut diplomatic and transport ties with Doha, Qatari commercial bankers said.
Industriens Pension Invests In Motorway Infrastructure In US And Europe
<p>Industriens Pension has made three new transport infrastructure investments totalling DKK1.1bn (€148m).</p>
<p>The Danish pension fund has invested in motorways and motorway service stations in the US, Portugal and the UK.</p>
China's Transport Infrastructure Investment Grows
FIXED assets investment in China's transport infrastructure registered a robust growth in the first two months of this year, part of the efforts to build a modern and efficient transportation system.
Norwegian Oil Majors Revise 2017 Oil And Gas Investment Forecast Upwards
Optimistic about the near-term future of the oil industry, Norwegian oil companies have upped their investment plans for 2017 over the past three months, according to a survey conducted by the national statistics office. The results of the survey, released on Thursday, show that the total number of oil and gas extraction and transport projects is expected to fall for the third year in a row because energy majors slashed expenditures by over 50 percent since the oil price crisis began in 2014. This year the extraction and pipeline sectors will benefit…
BMW, Tesla, Others Invest $140M In Electric Bus Company Proterra
The sleek cars and self-driving technology behind them, from the likes of Tesla Motors and BMW, has hogged most of the limelight on electric vehicles, but the battle against the use of fossil fuels for transport is also being waged on the mass transit front.
KJM Capital Acquires Two Refrigerated Carriers
KJM Capital, LLC, an Orlando, Florida-based private equity firm, announced that, in separate transactions, it has acquired Interide Transport (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Blue Sky Logistics (Smithfield, Utah). Both acquired companies are privately held, temperature-controlled carriers. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
CommInsure Loses $4.5B Contract With Superannuation Fund
<p>CommInsure has lost another insurance contract, this time with a $4.5 billion industry superannuation fund.</p>
<p>Following a competitive tender, transport and logistics industry fund TWUSUPER ended its partnership with CommInsure and selected TAL as its new provider of group life insurance.</p>