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Companies 12th April 2012

Ferrovial awarded Sheffield €2.4bn infrastructure maintenance contract

LONDON/MADRID | Sheffield City Council in England announced that Ferrovial Services’ subsidiary Amey was the preferred bidder for a contract to maintain the city’s infrastructure in a project worth £2 billion or €2.425 billion in revenues. The contract includes a 5-year programme of upgrade works, followed by maintenance for 25 years. The Ferrovial Services subsidiary will take responsibility for 1,900 km of road, 68,000 street lights, 500 traffic signals, 600 bridges and other structures, 2,400 retaining walls…

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Companies 20th February 2012

Abertis, ACS do not fear the UK

By Julia Pastor, in Madrid | In spite of the many difficulties that Spanish construction companies find in the UK, these firms remain undeterred and keep on defending their assets in Great Britain, as well as fighting to obtain new contracts in the country. This is the case of Abertis Infraestructuras, which will bring to court Luton Borough Council in a €360-million compensation claim if the local authority forced it to…

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Companies 6th February 2012

Ferrovial, Técnicas Reunidas go for the British nuclear plants

By Tania Suárez, in Madrid | The Spanish companies Ferrovial and Técnicas Reunidas (TRE) have joined forces to bid for British nuclear plants. According to UK Government, the British Nuclear Plan would entail a substantial £50 billion investment over the next decades. Ferrovial and TRE have already sealed a framework agreement to work together in large projects related to construction, engineering and operation of nuclear plants. Experts from Bankinter point…

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Companies 18th January 2012

Building Thames Estuary airport “will waste precious time,” says Ferrovial’s BAA

LONDON | The British prime minister David Cameron on Wednesday unilaterally gave his go-ahead to a closer study of the Thames Estuary airport proposal, among other options on expanding UK's travel and trade links with non-European markets. Downing Street explained that plans for a second runway at Stansted and any expansion of Gatwick before 2019 remained ruled out, as it is a third runaway for Heathrow airport. The Thames scheme…

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Companies 22nd November 2011

Ferrovial Investor’s Day: “Visibility for the service business can rise hidden value”

Ferrovial held its Investor’s day on Tuesday in London. The event focused its attention on the Spanish firm’s services division (Amey, Cespa and Ferroser). Ahorro Corporación Financiera’s (ACF) analysts expect that Ferrovial will give more visibility to the services business, since “it could surface some hidden value in this unit or even generate new share price catalysts”. Experts argue that “after Swissport and Tubelines sale, 60% of the services’ EBITDA…

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Companies 18th November 2011

Ferrovial reaches to Eastern Europe

Ferrovial has now completed the purchase of Poland’s Przedsiebiorstwo Napraw Infrastruktury (PNI), specialised in civil engineering and railway design, construction and maintenance. The Spanish firm said the cost was close to €51 million euro or 225 million zlotys. Ferrovial, which is the owner of BAA in the UK, carried out this operation through Ferrovial Agroman’s Polish subsidiary Budimex. Alejandro de la Joya, CEO of Ferrovial Agroman explained why the company is interested…

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Spanish economy 10th October 2011

Is BAA selling airports or buying time? Most probably, both

Best Ways To Win A Guy Back The financial City of Madrid on Monday unanimously recommended investors to support Ferrovial's strategy on its UK operator BAA deals: adjourning forced divesting until the markets set better conditions. While the British Competition Commission has accepted a reversal in sale plans, so BAA will begin by offering one of the two airports it owns in Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh) instead of Stansted, the…