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M50 Concession Ltd
M50 Concession Ltd is the company responsible for the Operations & Maintenance of the M50 Motorway in Dublin, Ireland. The M50 is a 40 km C-shaped ring around Dublin that connects all the National Primary Routes to the capital and carries more 115,000 vehicles per day.
In September 2007, the National Roads Authority (NRA) awarded M50 Concession Limited the 35 year M50 PPP ( Public Private Partnership) Contract to carry out the upgrading works, financing and to operate & maintain the M50.
M50 Concession Limited aims to be come a leading example of PPP operators in Ireland by conducting and focusing its business in responsible and sustainable manner, respectful with the environment and committed to the community and its stakeholders. For these reasons, M50 Concession Limited implemented and operates under a Quality and Environmental Management Systems certified under ISO 14001, ISO 9001, ISO 50001 and OHSAS 18001 and has recently joined the Carbon Disclosure Protocol (CDP).
M50 Concession Ltd is specially committed in making driving safer for for all its motorists. That’s why, in conjunction with the NRA, the RSA and the Emergency Services, M50 Concession Ltd has put in place initiatives such as the Live Traffic Alert Twitter @M50Dublin, the 24h Free Emergency Response and Vehicle Recovery Service and the new M50 App for Android & IOS phones.
M50 Concession Ltd shareholders are Globalvia Inversiones, a major worldwide infrastructure developer and operator, and Semperian, an independent fund management company
M50 – Map can be found here
M50 – Carbon Disclosure Project
M50 Concession Street Light Dimming Project
Quality, Energy, Environmental & Health & Safety Policy Statements
Operations & Maintenance
Globalvia is a worldwide leading company in the management of ifrastructure assets, ranking #2 by number of PPP contracts(Public Works Financing in 2013).
Globalvia was formed in 2007 by FCC and Caja Madrid (now Bankia), both well recognized companies from Spain that started their activity in the concession sector back in 1991 and 1997,
respectively.
Globalvia mission is to invest in the infrastructure sector, on a long term basis and securing controlling stakes to efficiently manage the assets through the different stages of the project: Design,
Build, Finance, Operation and Maintenance.
Leading Pension Funds providers PGGM
(Netherlands), IOTrust (Canada) and Uss (United Kingdom) have agreed to invest €750 Million in Globalvia Inversiones through a convertible instruments of the current Globalvia’s portfolio and to facilitate future investments.
Globalvia will continue to establish itself as a leading infrastructure player, improving the quality of it portfolio and moving to the next level through exploiting new opportunities in attractive sectors. Globalvia will focus on managing road and railway concessions and seek to expand in OECD countries.
In Ireland, Globalvia is the primary operator of Irish busiest motorways. Globalvia has responsibility for the operation and maintenance of a number of motorway projects including the M50 motorway, the toll-free motorway segments in the Greater Dublin Area (over 270 kilometres of road knows as MMaRC A Network) and the M6 Galway to Ballinasloe motorway.
Semperian is an open ended UK corporate investment vehicle, whose investors are primarily pension funds in both the public and private sector, all of whom are UK based. The four investors in Semperian controlling 100% of the shares are GLIL, Transport for London Pension Fund, the Local Pensions Partnership and funds managed by Aberdeen Asset Management.
Semperian Capital Management has successfully transacted on a large number of PPP acquisitions, including two recent UK road PPP projects, Aberdeen Roads and A1 Darrington to Dishforth, and is an existing investor in the M1 Motorway PPP in Ireland; as well as the M40 motorway project in England.
Semperian also has direct operational experience through its shareholding in the M1 operating company, Northlink M1 Limited, alongside Egis.
The wider Semperian portfolio consists of 94 PPP investments with a gross equity value of over £1.8 billion, plus over 250 asset management professionals actively managing the majority of the equity investments where Semperian has a controlling stake.
Further information is also contained at our website www.semperian.co.uk
