PPP earmarked to fund Melbourne’s East West Link road project

The Victoria state government in Australia is planning to build Melbourne’s East West Link road costing US$5.64 billion (AUD 6 billion) to $7.53 billion (AUD 8 billion) on public-private partnership (PPP) basis and will award construction deals by the end of 2013. There are four consortia shortlisted for the18km tolled motorway project: Momentum Infrastructure, consisting of Leighton, John Holland, Iridium and Dragados; Sicuro, made up of Egis, Hyundai, Impregilo, Salini, Aquasia and InfraLinx Capital. T
September 24, 2013 Read time: 1 min
The Victoria state government in Australia is planning to build Melbourne’s East West Link road costing US$5.64 billion (AUD 6 billion) to $7.53 billion (AUD 8 billion) on public-private partnership (PPP) basis and will award construction deals by the end of 2013.

There are four consortia shortlisted for the18km tolled motorway project: Momentum Infrastructure, consisting of Leighton, 4755 John Holland, Iridium and 4761 Dragados; Sicuro, made up of 2643 Egis, 236 Hyundai, 3149 Impregilo, Salini, Aquasia and InfraLinx Capital. The third consortium is Inner Link Group comprising 1304 Transfield Services, 930 Cintra, Samsung, 2717 Ferrovial, Ghella, 2378 Macquarie and REST. East West Connect made up of Capella Capital, 976 Acciona, 979 Bouygues and Lend Lease is the fourth shortlisted consortium.
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