| Project of the Year Awards
| The Jury: Antonio Lopez Corral - Spineq - Madrid, Spain • Antonio Juan Sosa - CAF - Caracas, Venezuela • Marie Claude Erian - EDC - Toronto, Canada • Julio Estrada - World Economic Forum - Geneva/Guatemala • Satvinder Singh - IE Singapore - New York/Singapore • Philippe Valahu - Depfa Bank - London/Belgium • Brian Weihs - Control Risks - Mexico/Canada • Mauricio Cardenas - BCIE - Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Engineering Project of the Year: Rio Grijalva, Mexico | An emergency project in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas, southern Mexico,caused by a tropical storm. The Grijalva River (the second largest in Mexico), was blocked by a landslide. To achieve their goal, the engineers had to remove 1.1 million cubic meters of dirt and open a canal 100 meters wide and 120 height, in less than three months. Additionally, the project had to be carefully coordinated in order to open the flow of two adjacent dams, which were holding the excess waters from the river. | | Azua Bio-diesel Project, Dominican Rep.
| Job creation for this project is estimated at 12,000 small farmers, growing Jetropha on their land, and 500 – 1000 workers at the plant, and working on gathering and distribution logistics. Similar plants will be replicated throughout the Caribbean and Central America. | | Panama Canal, Panama
| Since the turnover to Panama of the Canal, the ACP has cut costs, cut queueing times, raised productivity and profits, and put $1bn into modernizing and widening the canal, with the aim of boosting capacity by 20%. Average journey time from ocean to ocean (‘canal waters time’) has been cut from 30 to 24 hours, and the safety record has improved: there were no more accidents in 2004 than in the early 1920s, despite much larger ships and many more of them (14,000 a year, instead of 3,000). Annual profits of the Canal are roughly $500 million. |
| | San Jose-Caldera Highway, Costa Rica | The financial structure that best points the way forward, in terms of a replicable model, so that the region might achieve the goal of tripling investment in infrastructure within the next five years. | | Panama Canal Expansion, Panama
| Currently 3% of world trade passes through the Canal, and with the expansion this rate will double. Strategically the Panama Canal expansion will not only impact on the volume of trade, but also contribute to the reduction in cost of transit times through increased reliability. |
| *Yukiko Omura, Executive VP of /MIGA (World Bank Group) | For the support and development of more than $6 billion in projects, and the creation of more than 300,000 jobs
| *Special Lifetime Achievement Award |
| | Project of the Year Awards
| Likuen's Coal Liquefaction Project, Colombia
| First of its kind, the $2 billion project will turn coal into liquid fuel for powering vehicles.
| Engineering Project of the Year
| São Paulo's Tiete River Clean-up Project, Brazil
| This $400 million project intended to clean up the Alto Tiete basin created 3,000 Direct and 9,000 indirect jobs.
| Equity/ Job Creation Project of the Year
| Rio de Janeiro's Linha Amarela (Invepar), Brazil
| This is a long term infrastructure investment that has shown extraordinary returns each year for the last 14 years. The Linha Amarela Project was the first de-facto Public Private Partnership Contract signed in Brazil in 1994. The 20 Km toll road project connects the Ilha do Fundão, an industrial zone in the northern part of the city to Barra da Tijuca, in the western part of Rio de Janeiro. The US $405 million Greenfield project was structured as a 25 year BOT and financed under a project finance that shareholder equity and a combination of debt from shareholders, private banks and the IDB and BNDES. The project has performed outstandingly over the course of the past 11 years, yielding consistent returns to its shareholders.The EBITDA for the project last year was above 60%.
| Long-term Performance Project of the Year
| Terminal 3 - Mexico City Airport, Mexico
| Largest syndicated loan ever granted in Mexico. Total cost of $400 million.
| Financial Project of the Year
| | LNG Re-gas Project (ENAP) | The US$500 million base-load LNG project will be constructed in the Bay of Quintero in Region V. The receiving terminal will be the first of its kind in South America, but will complement existing or proposed LNG export facilities around the region. The project is expected to create between 400 and 800 jobs in Quintero, the small port town that moved nearly 11 million tons of cargo last year.
| Strategic Project of the Year
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| The Five Global Forum Champions: | Alfredo Elias Ayub – CEO of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission, for the last 10 years he has overseen the steady growth in Mexico’s power sector, and specifically in terms of generation matrix. CFE provides service to more than 26 million customers throughout Mexico. They have been ranked #1 in Latin America for the last three years by the AmericaEconomia-CG/LA Infrastructure Rankings.
| Eike Bautista – One of the world’s visionary infrastructure project developers, he is developing two major ports in Brazil, a major oil company and a series of critical power projects.
| Quentin Kopp – Chairman of the California High Speed Rail Authority, he successfully negotiated the approval of a $10 billion bond approval for the project. Among key infrastructure developments is the extension of San Francisco’s BART metro, including an extension to the San Francisco airport.
| Peter Barker-Homek – CEO of the TAQA, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund focused on energy and renewable energy projects. In two years he has built TAQA into a global enterprise with 2800 employees.
| Peter Bezukladnikov – Director General, Group E4, the Russian Federation’s largest engineering company. E4 Group comprises 13 holding companies and 50 business units employing more than 17,000 specialists in 25 regions and in all federal districts of the Russian Federation.
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