AFP // INFRA

Infrastructure: ports, rail and EPC contracts on the corridor

Bulk minerals logistics, roads and railways, EPC contracts and project finance. We appraise the infrastructure that decides whether resources can be exported, then present it to the contractors and financiers able to carry it.

Ports
Rail & roads
EPC
Project finance
Acting under mandate
NCNDA as standard

Scope

The infrastructure sub-segments we cover

Our scope follows the export chain, from the production site to the ship. We do not work on real estate or urban facilities.

Ports and bulk minerals logistics

The decisive link in the corridor. Bulk terminals, storage yards, conveyors and loading solutions: without contracted port capacity, a mining project stays on the drawing board.

Bulk terminals and dedicated berths
Storage yards, conveyors and ship loading
Export chains from the site through to the port
Barges, transhipment and anchorage solutions

Roads, mine haul roads and railways

Site access and heavy transport corridors. These works are assessed against the volumes they carry: we appraise them alongside the corresponding mining files.

Mine haul roads and access roads
Dedicated railways and spur lines
Bridges, crossings and earthworks
Corridors shared between several operators

EPC contracts and turnkey packages

Introductions between project sponsors and engineering, procurement and construction contractors. International EPC groups are looking for structured projects, not intentions.

Turnkey EPC contracts and separate packages
Basic engineering and feasibility studies
Procurement, prefabrication and site logistics
Consortia and construction joint ventures

Project finance

Structuring the relationship between the sponsor and the financiers: infrastructure funds, lenders, arrangers. We prepare the presentation file; we do not advise on the financial structure.

Infrastructure funds and long-term investors
Lenders, arrangers and development finance institutions
Concession structures and build-operate contracts
Public-private partnerships prepared with the sponsor

Operation and maintenance of logistics assets

Infrastructure, once delivered, has to be run. This segment appeals to terminal operators and service companies entering the corridor without carrying construction risk.

Terminal operators and operating concessions
Maintenance contracts and fleet management
Flow management, weighing and volume traceability
Site services and logistics subcontracting

Counterparties

Who we bring together in infrastructure

On one side, project sponsors and operators that have production to move out; on the other, contractors and financiers looking for legible projects. Each party is verified before any introduction.

Project side

The files we receive, appraise and present.

Sponsors of port and logistics projects
Concession holders and private infrastructure developers
Mining operators looking for an export solution
Local construction companies looking for a partner
Public bodies sponsoring an identified project

Capital side

The international counterparties we approach.

EPC contractors and international construction groups
Infrastructure funds and long-term investors
Lenders, arrangers and development finance institutions
Terminal operators and bulk logistics providers
Suppliers of heavy and materials-handling equipment

Market view

What blocks, and what unblocks, an infrastructure file

Infrastructure projects on the corridor rarely fail for technical reasons. They fail on volumes, on documentation and on the public-sector interface.

Infrastructure is financed by its flows, not by its drawings

A terminal, a mine haul road or a rail spur is only financed if the tonnages that will use it are identified and, as far as possible, contracted. That is why we handle infrastructure files at the same time as mining files: the same corridor carries both. The Ouagadougou–Abidjan route is the plainest illustration: the gold and the inputs of a landlocked country travel out through an Ivorian port, and we have an office at each end of that route. A project presented without its likely users does not have a file, it has an intention.

International contractors are looking for structured projects

EPC groups and infrastructure funds worldwide have capable development teams. What they lack is not engineering, it is qualified and documented access to African projects. Our role is to present files whose scope, land tenure, permits, schedule and decision-makers are clearly established, and to state plainly what has not yet been settled.

The public-sector interface is the hard part, and it stays with the sponsor

Concessions, port authorisations, rights of way, occupancy agreements: these issues drive a project’s schedule. We map them with the sponsor and document them in the presentation file. We do not, however, deal with government departments on the sponsor’s behalf, and we carry out no lobbying: our anti-corruption stance is a condition of access to institutional counterparties.

Process

From first contact to closing, five steps

The same process applies to every infrastructure file, from a single EPC package to a complete logistics corridor.

01
Mandate
Nothing starts without a written mandate: scope, territory, term, fee and tail period.
02
Qualification
The file is reduced to verifiable facts, then to an anonymised teaser.
03
Due diligence
KYC on both sides of the table. A counterparty that refuses to be verified gets nothing.
04
Introduction
Presentation once the NCNDA is signed, with information released in stages.
05
Closing
Support through the negotiations to signature, followed by a 24-month tail period.

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Mandates

Selected infrastructure mandates

Anonymised extracts from live or qualifying mandates. No company name, no precise location, no figures: the full file opens once the NCNDA is signed and the counterparty verified.

AFP-INF-003Under qualification

Bulk terminal — mineral logistics

Location: Côte d’Ivoire
Seeking: EPC contractor & infrastructure investor

Under NDARequest the file

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Access granted under NCNDA, once the counterparty has been verified.

Acting under mandate

An infrastructure project to finance, or EPC capacity to deploy

Project sponsor, contractor or financier: describe your position, the stage the project has reached and the counterparty you are looking for. We scope first, then formalise before any documents are exchanged.

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Under written mandate and NCNDA, without exception

No company name, no precise location and no document circulates before the NCNDA is signed and the counterparty verified. That is the difference between structured deal origination and an opportunistic introduction.

NCNDA as standard
KYC on all parties
Anti-corruption stance