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...Santander highlighted other growth opportunities for the Sempra unit, including the possible acquisition of the stake in the key Los Ramones Norte pipeline owned by state oil company Pemex, worth some $250m...
...On Friday it announced its intention to buy out Vale’s 40 per cent holding in a Brazilian bauxite mine, Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN). Bauxite is the basic ore required to smelt aluminium....
...The authorities have named the investigation Operation Godfather – a reference to Mr Armstrong Emery’s media title in Rio Grande do Norte, one of the states where he has promoted the company’s developments...
...officer, said the company was also looking to raise cash by reducing its holdings of Brazilian rail freight company MRS Logística, and was in talks to offload its stake in bauxite producer Mineração Rio do Norte...
...On the same day, Empresas ICA, Mexico’s largest construction company, announced it would postpone the secondary share offering it had planned for its airport group, Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte....
...The Anhanguera acquisition will be Kroton’s fourth deal since it acquired Uniao Norte do Parana de Ensino for R$1.3bn in 2011 and comes just two and a half months after Abril agreed to pay R$877m ($435.7m...
...Norte Energia, which includes state-run Eletrobrás and miner Vale, has said the dam should be operational by 2015....
...Gas distribution company Transportaora de Gas del Norte (TGN) has been under government administration since 2008....
...The company has teamed up with Norte Energia – also in Brazil’s top three with a Peak RRI of 43 – to work on the Belo Monte dam on Brazil’s Xingu River, the most controversial project on the RepRisk database...
...BHP has appointed advisers to explore a sale of its aluminium assets in Brazil, according to people familiar with the matter, where the mining group has stakes in two joint ventures, the Mineração Rio do Norte...
...The company would also sell an 8.43 per cent equity stake in the Ferrocarriles del Norte de Colombia (Fenoco) railway that connects the coal mines to the port....
...department; (b) 100 per cent of Sociedad Portuaria Rio Cordoba (SPRC), a coal port facility in the Atlantic coast of Colombia; and (c) an 8.43 per cent equity participation in the railway Ferrocarriles del Norte...
...From Télam, Argentina’s official news agency: The provincial Government of Neuquén expired on Tuesday the concession of the hydrocarbon areas Veta Escondida, Covunco Norte y Fortín de Piedras....
...The Brazilian miner of iron ore, copper and other metals said it would pay R$2.3bn ($1.4bn) for the stake into Norte Energia, the company building the flagship government-backed project, which is expected...
...But both the government and Norte Energia, which declined to comment on the ruling, know that more important will be to win the case in the court of public opinion – in Brazil and overseas....
...One of the first projects designed to tackle this issue is the Norte-Sul railway, on which work first began in 1987....
...In 2007, Vale, the world’s biggest miner, bought a concession to operate part of the Norte-Sul railway. CCR, the toll road operator, has the concession to build a subway line in São Paulo....
...Gaunt, bespectacled and with his grey locks arranged in waves, the Eton-educated former SAS trooper apologised to his hosts for the role he played in a plot to overthrow the government of President Teodore...
...Emerging market corporates that have issued bonds this month include Gazprom, the Russian oil and gas giant, Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong telecommunications group, and Telemar Norte Leste, the Brazilian...
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