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Australia's largest unrated bond issue closes at $85m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Australia's largest unrated bond issue by rail freight operator SCT Logistics has closed its $85 million offer oversubscribed. FIIG Securities acted as sole originator for the dual-tenor issue, which comprised a four-year floating rate note series of ...

FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... out of 144 countries. Some of the poorest scores were for the quality of Australia's roads and ports. The World Bank's Logistics Performance Index 2014 ranked Australia's trade and transport infrastructure 16th in the world. The Australian Infrastructure ...

FIIG to arrange record bond issue

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
National transport and logistics company SCT Logistics will undertake Australia's largest unrated bond issue for a private business through a dual-tenor issue of $75-85 million. The issue, which will be arranged by FIIG Securities, comprises two types ...

ASX lower for fourth day

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... impairments and said it would stop paying dividends. Meanwhile, Qube shares lost 16 cents, or six per cent, to $2.61 after the logistics and infrastructure company warned it was facing tough trading conditions.

FIIG launches Asciano direct bond

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Asciano Finance Pty Ltd is the financing vehicle for Asciano Limited. Asciano is an Australian provider of critical logistics services within infrastructure based supply chains. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and has a market ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... and uncover spare capacity. Reducing total cost of labour through robotics Improving efficiency of distribution and logistics. Rieder says these changes are resulting in what he calls the 'Tesla Economy' in the US. The performance electric vehicle manufacturer ...

QIC hires senior infrastructure execs

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... infrastructure franchise, and for more than a decade was its managing director and head of infrastructure, transport and logistics for the UK and Europe. He joined Royal Bank of Canada in 2003 after four years as head of infrastructure at Newcourt Capital/CIT ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... results. In Australia, the market on Wednesday hit another new six-and-a-half year high as a massive takeover offer for logistics group Toll sent its stocks soaring. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 57.5 points, or 0.98 per cent, at 5,915.7 points. ...

Investec property fund acquires $8.1m warehouse

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... Australia (WMA). WMA is owned by Skips AS Tudor Norway, the private investment vehicle of the Wilhelmsen shipping and logistics family. The remaining income (7%) is underpinned by a lease of a prominent advertising sign that fronts the Western Freeway ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... on Thursday evening. The Guardian saw a column of 23 armoured personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other logistics vehicles with official Russian military plates, travelling towards the border near the Russian town of Donetsk - about 200km ...