CG/LA Infrastructure announced today the confirmation of several new projects for the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, including the Panama Canal Expansion. The Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum will be held from December 12-14 at Seven World Trade Center in New York City. New York City Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff will open the Leadership Forum on December 12, and Larry Silverstein, President & CEO of Silverstein Properties, owner of 7 World Trade Center, will deliver a keynote.
"The Global Leadership Forum is a prime catalyst in the world's $41 trillion infrastructure marketplace, identifying and bringing together the most important infrastructure projects globally with the world's leading financial, engineering, technology and equipment firms in an infrastructure ‘marketplace'. The Forum provides a platform for the leaders of the world's most important projects to meet their market," said Norman F. Anderson, the President & CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure LLC.
Global Projects & Strategic Sectors. Projects will be presented from every region of the globe, from Azerbaijan to the Philippines and Zambia, as well as the US and Europe. These include:
Critical infrastructure: Panama Canal Expansion (US$5.3 billion).
Transformational projects: Digitalization of Africa (US$350 million initial value - $5 billion total build-out).
‘New' infrastructure projects: Ohio River Coal-to-Liquids Project (US$5 billion).
‘Logistical infrastructure projects: O'Hare Airport Modernization Project (US$6 billion).
Key Mega-cities projects: PlanNYC 2030 (US$30 billion).
Key VIP's Participating: In addition to confirming participation of leading banks, equity and hedge funds, equipment / technology companies, and project / trade financing entities, this week CG/LA has confirmed the active participation of 9 Infrastructure Ministers:
Minister of Trade and Industry, Kazahstan: Galym Orazbakov
Minister of Transport, Azerbaijan: Ziya Mammadov
Minister of Public Works, Bolivia: Jose Kinn Franco
Secretary of Urban Development and Housing, Mexico City: Arturo Aispuro Secretary of Export & Investment Promotion, Dominican Republic: Eddy Martinez Vice Speaker, Kaliningrad, Russia: Vladimir Vukolov,
Minister of Transportation, Ukraine: Mykola Rudkovsk
Minister of Energy, Ukraine: Volodymyr Makukha
Economic Minister, Ukraine: Oksana Slyusarenko
These ministers join Yukiko Omura, Executive Vice President of the World Bank's MIGA; Linda Conlin, Vice Chairman of US Ex-Im Bank; Antonio Juan Sosa, Vice President for Infrastructure of the CAF; and Gilbert Mbesherubusa, Director for Infrastructure of the African Development Bank, in hosting the Top 100 Global Infrastructure Projects.
Sponsors. The Global Leadership Forum is sponsored by leading public and private entities from around the world, including 2 Platinum sponsors, Mexico City and the Dominican Republic; Gold sponsors, the World Bank/MIGA, the African Development Bank, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Andean Development Corporation, Emerging Energy Research, EOS Airlines and Ospraie Management; and Silver sponsors Louis Berger International, and TetraTech. The infrastructure-focused investment bank Sterne Agee is the local host, and the US Export-Import Bank is a supporting organization.
About CG/LA Infrastructure LLC: Founded in 1987, CG/LA is the leading global infrastructure strategy firm. Based in Washington, DC, CG/LA focuses on building out the world's $41 trillion global infrastructure marketplace (through 2030). CG/LA provides services to public and private sector clients through a series of proprietary databases, as well as conceptual and diagnostic models of ‘strategic infrastructure.' For more information visit: www.cg-la.com
About the Leadership Forum: CG/LA operates the Leadership Forum as a public good, bringing infrastructure project leaders together to present their projects to the people who can make those projects a reality. For more information visit: http://www.cg-la.com/lfplatform.php
Contacts CG/LA Infrastructure LLC
Alex Shtogren, 202-776-0990
Email: ashtogren@cg-la.com