Spanish Contractors Make a Global Imprint / Toll roads and operating experience fuel expansion
Source: By Peter Reina, Engineering News Record (Subscription Required), 8/15/2007
Enriched by booming domestic orders, Spanish construction groups now are flexing their muscles globally. As well as moving into high-value-added sectors, contractors are increasingly exploiting their toll road know-how to pry open new markets. The U.S. is among prime destinations.
....... The company with the most privately financed U.S. toll road concessions is Cintra, controlled by Spain’s Grupo Ferrovial. Spanish firms are in three of four teams shortlisted last month to bid for the $2-billion Texas North Tarrant Express concession, and were in six of the original the seven candidates.