Global Trade Review Lists Beitbridge Project Among Top Deals Of The Year
The Global Trade Review, the global trade finance magazine, has named the US$296 million project to modernise the Beitbridge Border Post among its top 11 worldwide deals of the year.
Global Trade Review selects the market’s Best Deals from the previous 12 months.
According to the magazine, the winning deals “feature a mix of trade, commodity, supply chain and export finance, as well as fintech-led transactions”.
Zimborders, a consortium of local businesses, is leading the project to build a new border post.
The project includes, as part of the deal, building new public amenities in Beitbridge town.
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Zimbabwe has given contractors, including the lead contractor, the JSE-listed construction firm Raubex, up to the end of 2021 to modernise the post.
According to RMB, upgrading the Beitbridge Border Post ensures a more efficient trading system in Southern Africa because the crossing is the gateway to Zimbabwe and into the SADC region.
The deal comprises US$194 million of a senior debt facility, plus US$21,9 of equity.
The mandated lead arrangers on the deal are Absa, Nedbank, RMB, Standard Bank. Lenders include Absa, Afreximbank, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF).
The Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC), the South African export credit agency (ECA), acted as a commercial and political risk insurer for the senior debt facility and, alongside Afreximbank, was a political risk provider for a portion of the shareholders’ equity and loan investments. Global Trade Review said:
_By structuring tranches with ECAs, the banks were able to deliver competitive financing terms through longer tenors and lower interest rates._
_The complex transaction took nearly three years to structure and negotiate with the various public and private entities involved._
Other winners of GTR’ Deal of the Year include the Cairo Monorail; the £2,4 billion Dogger Bank wind farm in the UK; Enel Green Power supply chain programme in Mexico; Northvolt, a Swedish startup developing lithium-ion batteries; and Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway.
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