Infrastructure Project of the Year Nominations Announced

MIAMI--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--Today the 6° Annual Latin American Leadership Forum announced the nominees for Infrastructure Project of the Year awards. “Latin America is beginning to invest in high quality, long-term, infrastructure to both increase competitiveness and create sustainable opportunities,” according to Norman F. Anderson, President & CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure, the firm organizing the Leadership Forum. “More than $64 billion in strategic infrastructure projects will be presented by sponsors at next week’s forum.” The Leadership Forum will be held from April 1- 4 at the Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay, in Miami, FL.

“More than $64 billion in strategic infrastructure projects will be presented by sponsors at next week’s forum.”

Winners will be announced on April 3 at 11:00 am, during the second day of the Leadership Forum. Nominees are the following:

Engineering (The most creative or challenging engineering project of 2007/8)

• Rio Grijalva – Mexico
• Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (Comperj) -Brazil
• Ethanol Pipeline Logistics Project - Brazil

Equity/Job Creation (The project that will create the most jobs, and the greatest business opportunities, over the next 25 years)

• São Paulo - Rio de Janeiro Bullet Train – Brazil
• Panama Canal Project – Panama
• Azua Bio-diesel Project - Dominican Republic

Long-term Performance (The project that has been operational for at least 5 years, and that demonstrates that infrastructure projects in Latin America perform to world class physical and financial standards)

• Panama Canal - Panama
• CFE Generation Program - Mexico
• Chilean Water & Wastewater Investment Program - Chile

Finance (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).

• San Jose-Caldera Highway – Costa Rica
• Cedae IPO – Brazil
• Puerto Plata - Dominican Republic

Strategic Project of the Year (The project - underway in the 2007/8 period - that promises to change the competitive face of the region)

• Corredor Férreo del Magdalena - (Ferrocarril Chilhuana-Villavieja) Colombia
• São Paulo Mass Transit Digital Clearinghouse – Brazil
• Panama Canal Expansion - Panama

The Project of the Year Awards - Underwritten by Leadership Forum Sponsors

Sponsors come from 13 countries, making the Leadership Forum a truly international event, and the Project of the Year awards a truly international recognition of excellence. Sponsors include: Platinum level – Barrick Gold/Pueblo Viejo; BCIE; CAF; CEI-RD; Globalia; and Gold level – Caixa, Citibank, Conduit Capital, Control Risks, Depfa Bank, Export Development Canada, ESRI, Fluitecnik, Globasol, Lacaz-Martins, Masada, World Bank/MIGA, NewLink Communications, Autopistas del Nordeste, Odebrecht, Panprojects, ProMéxico, Roko-ki, and the US Department of Energy.

To see the full agenda and participant roster, please click on: http://www.cg-la.com.

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