Yesterday
- Exclusive
- Infrastructure
New road, rail spending slumps as Labor tells premiers to cut back
Just eight new projects valued at $6.6 billion were added in 2022-23, a sharp decline on the 24 projects valued at $25.3 billion added the year prior.
- Ronald Mizen
This Month
France’s Vinci test drives banks for EastLink tilt; Transurban digs in
Paris-headquartered concessions player Vinci Group has begun meeting with investment banks for a potential buy-side mandate.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
New Transurban boss Michelle Jablko wants to reward drivers
The CEO plans to offer incentives such as car hire and car wash discounts for users of the toll road group’s Linkt accounts to encourage motorists to keep paying for its roads.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Exclusive
- NZ election
Why NZ’s likely new PM channels Mark McGowan
The man widely tipped to become New Zealand’s next prime minister says he’s looked to Australia to develop many of his signature policies.
- Tom Rabe
Allons y! ACCC ruling lures offshore investors to EastLink
Interested parties have taken this to heart and it appears there’s a new gorilla in the auction.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Infrastructure
Green energy transition will need ‘mountain of regional relocation’
Worker shortages in regional areas risk delays and budget blowouts in the push to turbocharge green energy projects, according to analysis by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia.
- Ronald Mizen
EastLink auction speeds past ACCC pit stop; data room set to open
Prospective buyers were offered the toll road’s traffic data upon signing the confidentiality agreements.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
IFM to take Mexican toll road and airport operator private
The $220 billion fund manager’s global infrastructure fund has acquired the last 14 per cent of Aleatica for $708 million, and intends to delist the company.
- Matthew Cranston
September
Atlas Arteria to fight new French motorway taxes
Toll road group Atlas Arteria’s lucrative French motorway could be hit with a new annual tax of almost $200 million after the French government released its 2024 budget.
- Jenny Wiggins
‘Basically working for nothing’: Truckies crushed by fuel price surge
Veteran Sydney truck driver Frank Black says many operators are struggling to meet the costs of surging fuel prices.
- Tom Rabe
Abertis lines up bankers for EastLink tilt after Transurban knock back
Bad news for the fifty-strong team advising the ASX-listed infrastructure giant after the competition regulator said it would oppose any acquisition.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Charlton move shows private capital is coming for shiny ASX bosses
Transurban boss Scott Charlton is a big fish in a small pond. Going to run Sydney Airport will take him away from the ASX boards, but not from the public’s view.
- Anthony Macdonald
Labor accused of hypocrisy over road, rail project cuts
Infrastructure Minister Catherine King is gearing up to scrap or delay dozens of projects after an audit found a $33 billion blowout in the infrastructure pipeline.
- Ronald Mizen
August
Atlas Arteria profit up 17pc as toll roads get inflation boost
The tollroad group has been able to push through big increases in fares but has warned its lucrative French road could be more heavily regulated in future.
- Jenny Wiggins
New Transurban CEO Michelle Jablko will be ‘smart and disciplined’
Outgoing Transurban chief executive Scott Charlton says there will be no loss of momentum when he leaves the $43 billion toll road group in October.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Jablko ushers in new era for Transurban
Michelle Jablko will be able to use her skills and the toll-road group’s stored-up soft power to extract more from governments and create more value for investors.
- Anthony Macdonald
EastLink auction kick off delayed by two months; eyes on ACCC decision
The ACCC fears are hanging thick in the air.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
July
Spain’s ACS confirms Abertis wants Australian toll roads
The Spanish owner of CIMIC, Australia’s biggest construction group, wants to use its stake in Abertis to expand into tolling motorways in Australia.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
Whistleblower urges Australia cut ties with ‘Chinese Communist’ bank
Bob Pickard quit the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, complaining its upper ranks were dominated by Chinese Communist Party members.
- Andrew Tillett
EastLink auction gears for kick-off despite Transurban’s ACCC pothole
Melbourne toll road EastLink’s $2 billion odd majority-stake auction is expected to kick off as early as July.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
