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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9778

8 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/eib
€313 loan for Antwerp port rail tunnel

Brussels, 07/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has just lent €313 million for the construction of a tunnel under the Scheldt river to link container terminals in the Port of Antwerp with Europe's main railway network. The project takes the form of a public private partnership (PPP) between Infrabel, Belgium's railway infrastructure company, and Locorail NV, a special purpose company owned by a consortium of European construction groups. The project is the EIB's...

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