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Aqualia lnfrastructures awarded
new contract in the Balkans
New award for the New Cairo (Egypt)
wastewater treatment plant
Aqualia Infrastructures won a new con-
tract in the Balkans for Phase I of the
Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina wastewater
treatment plant. Located between Mostar
and Sarajevo, the city has a population of
nearly 50,000 people.
Will be building
a wastewater treatment
plant in Konjic, Bosnia
Besides this
project,
it has been involved
since 2012 in building
another plant
in Montenegro
The New Cairo wastewater treatment faci-
lity, financed, designed, built and operated
by FCC Aqualia, received a new recognition
from the international industry, this time by
the Executive Vice President and Managing
Director of the International Finance Cor-
poration (IFC) and organization attached
to the World Bank, and from the Emerging
Partnerships publication.
The prize, given in Washington, D.C. during
the meeting of the World Bank, is a recog-
nition of FCC Aqualia’s plant as the third-
best public-private (PPP) partnership in the
region encompassing Europe, North Africa,
the Middle East and Central Asia.
The other two winners, ahead of FCC Aqua-
lia, were the Queen Alia Airport in Jordan
and the Pulkovo Airport in Russia with an
initial investment of 900 and 1.5 billion eu-
ros, respectively. In the case of New Cairo,
the figure totals 200 million euro, undersco-
ring the relevance of additional factors such
as the model of the finance arrangement.
Among the other projects submitted which
did not make it to the podium were the
Slovakia Motorwa, worth an investment
of 1.67 billion euros; the Medina Airport in
Saudi Arabia (1.2 billion), and a water ma-
nagement contract in Jeddah, also in Saudi
Arabia.
This is the fourth prize awarded to FCC
Aqualia for this wastewater treatment faci-
Funded by the World Bank and to be
executed by Aqualia Infrastructure on its
own, the project was awarded by the Mi-
nistry of Agriculture and Water Manage-
ment which plans to put out to tender se-
veral wastewater treatment plant projects
over the coming months so as to be able
to comply with European Union requisites
for these types of facilities.
The contract bolsters FCC Aqualia’s pre-
sence in the Balkans and in Eastern Eu-
rope where it is already involved in the
execution of several treatment plants in
Montenegro and Rumania.
lity: in 2010 Euromoney Magazine selected
it as the “African Water Deal of the Year”;
a few months later, the industry warded
the Global Water Intelligence award as the
“Water Deal of the Year”; and, lastly, a few
weeks ago, the World Finance publication
named it the “Best Water PPP Project” of
North Africa and the Middle East.
In the photograph: on the left, Naoll Mary of
FCC Aqualia Concessions in America; Morsi El
Sayed Hegazy, Egyptian Minister of Finance;
and Jim-Yong Cai, executive vice-president and
managing director of IFC.
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