New Electric Rail Project19 Sep 2018 16:17
Power Demand Keeps Coming
ATI, Marsh offer $95 million bank surety for Tanzania rail project
Marsh, a global player in insurance broking and risk management solutions, has provided a $95 million innovative bank surety solution to Yapı Merkezi Construction and Industry Inc., to support the construction of a new high-speed electric railway line in Tanzania.
The solution was structured in collaboration with the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI), a multilateral pan-African investment insurer, and is backed by ATI’s treaty reinsurers (led by Munich Re) and a consortium of facultative reinsurers Trust Re (lead facultative reinsurer), BarentsRe, AfricaRe, and ZepRe.
Yapı Merkezi was awarded the contract to design and build the new $1.25 billion, 300km (including 95km sidings/passing loops), high-speed electric railway line by Tanzanian state-run railway firm RAHCO: Reli Assets Holding Company (currently TRC: Tanzania Railways Corporation).
The line from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro will replace the century-old track and will have the capacity to transport 17 million tonnes of cargo each year.
To help enable Yapı Merkezi to comply with project requirements to use local Tanzanian banks, Marsh’s Global Bank Surety Syndication team, headed by Manuel López, structured an innovative solution that guarantees Yapı Merkezi’s contractual performance-related obligations and the repayment of advance payments.
“Collaborating with Marsh enables us to keep focused on one of our main priorities: to pave the way for increased investments into ATI’s African member countries. Frequently these inroads can only be made with innovative solutions, which this project embodies.ATI has mobilized investments well in excess of US$1 billion into Tanzania in recent years. Marsh was instrumental in helping us close this deal, thus supporting additional investments into the country and ultimately delivering critical new infrastructure to the people of Tanzania,”
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