MEXICO PROJECTS HUB INITIATES THE EFFORT TO INCORPORATE INFORMATION OF SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS

Mexico Projects Hub initiates the effort  to incorporate  information of sustainability practices of the projects, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and based on its methodological framework defined in the document entitled: “Attributes and Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure”, which can be consulted HERE.

The inclusion of a  first group of 20 fact sheets is considered to be concluded during June 2019. Subsequently and gradually, the fact sheets of the rest of the projects included in the platform will be incorporated.

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Banobras receives 2019 ALIDE Award

Banobras receives ALIDE award for best practice of the year in information, technical assistance and social responsibility

Within the framework of its forty-ninth General Assembly, the Latin American Association of Development Financial Institutions (ALIDE), gave the award of Best Practice of the Year in the category of Information, Technical Assistance and Social Responsibility to Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos (Banobras) for its platform Mexico Projects Hub.

Mexico Projects Hub is a platform that promotes the main infrastructure and energy projects in their different stages,  sponsored  by the Government of Mexico and that require long-term debt or private capital.

Likewise, the platform  contains information regarding the investment cycle of those sectors  with the greatest impact in the development of infrastructure, legislation, model contracts, as well as documentation related to public-private partnerships.

Mexico Projects Hub  concentrates and disseminates information from 45 official sources and offers its  users free and online access to bilingual information, permanently updated and accessible through interactive modules. These characteristics make it unique in the world, and have allowed the establishment of strategic alliances with multilateral organizations, such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

To date, 760 projects have been incorporated: 567 greenfields and brownfields  and 111 investment vehicles. Mexico Projects Hub has over 35 thousand monthly users and in two years it has been consulted over 1.3 million times. In March 2019, the platform received more than 1,800 daily visits from more than 1,400 users, and form 145 countries.

ALIDE’s main objective is to contribute to the economic and social development of the region through the promotion of best  financial practices among its members, such as the financing of inclusive, responsible and sustainable projects.

ALIDE Awards were established in 2008 to identify and recognize best practices and innovation of products and services within  Latin American and the Caribbean development banks, as well as to recognize the effort of these institutions to foster economic growth and social development of the countries in the region.

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Pemex advances in exploration and development activities to increase its production

• Pemex shows important progress in the construction of infrastructure and procurement of well drilling in 20 new oil fields this year; 12 of these fields  will begin production in 2019

•Additionally, the development of 20 – 40 oil fields per year is estimated during  this Administration

• From 2019 to 2024 it is estimated the drilling of approximately 500 wells, the construction of more than 100 marine platforms and the installation of more than four thousand kilometers of pipelines, that will create and average of about 47 thousand jobs per year

Source: PEMEX

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Banobras and the State of Mexico promote investment opportunities in infrastructure projects

The National Bank of Public Works and Services (Banobras) and the Government of the State of Mexico signed a memorandum of understanding to promote investment opportunities in infrastructure and energy projects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the State of Mexico.

Mexico Projects Hub, the first national projects hub operated by Banobras, will link investors to infrastructure projects to accelerate and boost their development in this state.

The document was signed by the Deput Chief Executive Officer of Investment Banking o Banobras, Sergio Forte Gómez, and the Secretary of Finance of the State of Mexico, Rodrigo Jarque Lira.

This is the fourth agreement signed by Banobras with different states to promote the development of infrastructure at a local level.

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Financing infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific: capturing impacts and new sources

ADB (Asian Development Bank)

This book presents several country studies and explains how infrastructure investment can increase output, taxes, trade, and firm productivity.

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Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Knowledge Hub: PRIORITIZING INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT. A FRAMEWORK FOR GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING.
EU BIM Task Group.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is being adopted rapidly by different parts of the value chain as a strategic tool to deliver cost savings, productivity and operations efficiencies, improved infrastructure quality and better environmental performance.

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National Highway Infrastructure Program 2018-2024

Two priority projects:

The first: The construction of paved roads for all the municipal capitals that lack it, with local labor and under the administration of the authorities of the community.

The second: The conservation and maintenance of all existing infrastructure and the completion of useful works, suspended or in process.

Source: Presidency

Statements during the presentation of the Program.

Message from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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CNH cancels the Second and Third Tenders of Round Three, and postpones PEMEX’s Associations.

In order to review the energy policy and evaluate the results and progress of existing hydrocarbons exploration and extraction contracts, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) announced the cancellation of the Second and Third Tenders of Round Three, as part of an exclusion of the total Areas requested by the Ministry of Energy (SENER).

Likewise, at the request of SENER, the CNH modified the schedule of the Bidding process related to Pemex’s associations.

Source: CNH

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Investment vehicles, now in database format

Mexico Projects Hub implements a new application to search and check the Investment Vehicles listed in the Projects section. This new tool includes a search engine that facilitates the selection of information according to specific criteria, including: type of vehicle, name, ticker symbol, sectors in which the vehicle invests, maximum issuance amount, placed amount, and currency.

The information can be sorted for each parameter and downloaded for further analysis in PDF and CSV formats.

A fact sheet for each vehicle can be printed, and each vehicle contains a link to those invested projects that are included in Mexico Projects Hub.

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New georeferenced resource for road projects

Starting December 2018, Mexico Projects Hub incorporates the joint efforts of the Mexican Transportation Institute (IMT), the National Road Network, and the Geospatial Information System (GIS) of the National Agrarian Registry, for georeferenced maps of highway projects, considering the start and end points indicated in their concession titles.

This tool is available for projects in operation published in Mexico Projects Hub that have the set of coordinates that describe their layout.

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