The Ministry of Communications is finally floating tender today for building an elevated expressway of 32.5 kilometres or more in Dhaka on a public private partnership (PPP) basis. The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) under the ministry will receive pre-qualification documents for this $2 billion project from interested bidders till January 20. Join discussion...

The London Borough of Hounslow will start the tender process at the end of this month for a 25-year road maintenance PFI contract. Join discussion...

Billionaire Carlos Slim’sImpulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en America Latina SA won a bid to build and operate Mexico’s Pacifico Norte highway project. Ideal, as the Mexico City-based construction financing company is known, will invest as much as 4 billion pesos ($306 million) on the project, Mexico’s Transportation Ministry said today in an e-mailed statement. Ideal topped bids from a consortium led by Empresas ICA SAB and from Obrascon Huarte Lain SA, the ministry said. Join discussion...

Egypt plans to tender for four Nile river cargo ports in 2010, and will announce the results of existing tenders to build two more ports by the end of this year, Transport Ministry officials said on Thursday. Join discussion...

The proposed Vasco-Panjim sea link could well be a reality with the government today inviting global bids for the consultancy services for the said project. It may be recalled that Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, in his budget speech, announced the proposal for a sea-link between Panjim and Vasco. Join discussion...

Chile's state-owned San Antonio port administrator Empresa Portuaria San Antonio (EPSA) hopes to launch the Costanera-Espigón terminal concession by year-end, the firm's chairman Patricio Arrau told BNamericas. The concession contemplates handing over sites 4 and 7 of Costanera-Espigón to a single operator for a period of 30 years. The project will require an investment of over US$300mn in infrastructure and equipment. Join discussion...

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has floated a tender to lend its six-storyed building in Kothrud to a private body for starting a 45 bed hospital. The project will be on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis and will be given to a contractor for a period of 10 years. Join discussion...

A consortium of Fraport, Russian state bank VTB and Greek Horizon Air Investments has been named preferred bidder for Russia's Pulkovo airport, Fraport said on Thursday. The consortium beat bids by aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element in partnership with Singapore's Changi airport and another group led by Flughafen Wien and Leader, a local investment house founded by Gazprom. Join discussion...

The Puerto Rico government will soon activate a new Public Private Partnership Authority and aims to have six PPP projects underway by year's end, according to the head of the Government Development Bank. "The government is looking to jolt the island out of its three-year-old recession and is seeking PPP investment in infrastructure projects like highways, mass transportation, and renewable energy projects," GDB President Carlos Garcia said. Join discussion...

Brazil's tender of three major highway concessions with a total length of 2,066 kilometers will likely go ahead in January, the Estado News Agency reported Friday. According to the report, the three toll roads will be the BR-040 highway from Brasilia to the Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro State border, the BR-381 from Belo Horizonte to Governador Valadares, and the full length of the BR-116 as it crosses Minas Gerais State. Join discussion...