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  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Cyber Security
    White House moves to defend US ports from Chinese cyber threat

    Move includes billions of dollars to replace container cranes amid concerns hackers could disrupt supply chains

    The China Shipping Container Terminal/WBCT at the Port of Los Angeles: the White House said the executive order would ‘bolster the security of the nation’s ports’
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    UK insurance industry
    UK insurers urge public-private schemes to deploy £100bn green investment

    Concerns that lack of suitable projects could undermine post-Brexit reforms designed to boost domestic infrastructure

    Construction workers in a completed section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    UK energy
    Macquarie looks to cut stake in UK’s biggest gas network Cadent

    Sale will be a key test of investor appetite for gas infrastructure as Britain tries to shift to renewables

    A coffee maker being heated on a gas kitchen stove
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    High Speed Two Ltd
    Planning applications jump fourfold along course of HS2

    Research by state-owned body in charge of project runs counter to MPs’ criticism that line is poor value for money

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Thames Water PLC
    Montague to step down as chair of Thames Water’s parent company

    City veteran will stay as chair of regulated entity as utility faces financial pressures

    Adrian Montague
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Brussels open to telecoms mergers to support investment

    European Commission says industry fragmentation could prevent operators reaching ‘scale needed to invest in the networks of the future’

    A telecoms engineer on a network mast
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    High Speed Two Ltd
    HS2 offers ‘very poor value’ for money, MPs warn

    Public accounts committee says neither managers nor government are able to explain project’s benefits

    A tunnel boring machine being used to construct HS2 in London
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Teesworks authority loses access rights case against Brookfield-owned port

    High Court upholds PDT’s claims across three parts of former steelworks site

    Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen at Teesworks Redcar site
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    News in-depthRussia
    Burst pipes and freezing flats plague Putin’s Russia

    Failing Soviet utilities are in dire need of investment but the Kremlin is focused on defence spending

    A man carrying a child over a river of boiling water from a bust pipe
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Utilities
    Water bills in England and Wales to rise by 6% from April

    Annual increase will come on top of the uplift set by Ofwat every five years

    Woman pouring water from faucet into glass at the kitchen
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    KKR & Co LP
    KKR raises record $6.4bn for Asia fund in infrastructure rush

    US private equity group’s bet follows other firms’ moves into sector but largely avoids deals in China

    Cables on servers at a data centre
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
    Can the UK afford to build better infrastructure?

    BCG report reveals price of a flat road in Britain is £8.45mn per km against European average of £5.77mn

  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    News in-depthUK Broadband
    Job cuts and consolidation dent ‘altnet’ ambitions

    Smaller network providers are being hit by rising rates and disappointing customer uptake

  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
    Gove’s plan for thousands of Cambridge homes at risk from lack of water

    Local leaders warn ‘nonsensical’ pledge by central government ignores absence of infrastructure

    Bridget Smith, leader of South Cambridgeshire council
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    High Speed Two Ltd
    HS2 considers scrapping first-class seats to maintain passenger capacity

    Officials to tackle drop in passenger capacity after Rishi Sunak revised rail link plans

    The construction of stanchions that will support a 300 metre-long viaduct, to bring the high-speed trains into the new Birmingham High Speed Rail 2 station
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    FT Series
    Britain’s infrastructure impasse

    From the chronic under-investment facing Birmingham to a case study in dysfunction, this series explores the infrastructure challenges facing the UK

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
    Budget blowouts and delays: why the UK struggles with infrastructure

    A 14-mile road and tunnel project is a microcosm of the cost overruns and missed deadlines that plague projects around the country

  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
    Birmingham pays the price for UK’s infrastructure gap

    Chronic under-investment outside London and the south-east has contributed to regional inequality and poor productivity

    A montage image of traffic through a bus window, a map, a city skyline and Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Utilities
    UK updates water company insolvency laws amid fears over sector’s finances

    New rules provide more options for special administrators to restructure groups unable to repay their debts

    A workman in a Thames Water jacket
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
    BlackRock goes all in on infrastructure

    Inside the massive money manager’s ‘transformational’ acquisition

  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Britain’s ageing railways struggle to deal with impact of climate change

    Record tenth winter storm on its way as workers clean up damage caused by high winds and rain brought by Isha

    Fallen tree on the line at Arrochar & Tarbet, Scottish Highlands
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Macquarie Group
    Macquarie raises record €8bn for Europe infrastructure fund

    Australian group’s new vehicle marks latest sign of investor appetite for critical assets

    Virtus data centers
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Brett Christophers
    BlackRock is betting that governments will blink first on infrastructure

    The asset manager’s acquisition of GIP is premised on an expectation of further incentives to invest

    Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, right, and Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman and chief executive of Global Infrastructure Partners, during a media interview in New York this month
  • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Labour’s John Hutton to chair new PFI liaison body

    Organisation formed to defuse disputes between investors and public sector over financing deals

    Lord John Hutton
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock to buy Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5bn

    Deal would create world’s second-biggest infrastructure firm and shake up private market investing

    Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock
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