(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 25 February 2019) Turkey's second nuclear power plant to be built in Sinop under a Japanese-French partnership, will make a breakthrough by obtaining a ground license this year. The plant, which will have an installed capacity of 4,480 megawatts (MW) and consist of four...
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2019/02/27
Country: France, Japan, Turkey
ECAs: COFACE, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Nuclear
2018/08/29
Country: France, Russia
Issue: Nuclear
(Trend News Agency, Baku, 24 August 2018) French CIFAL company is ready to help Uzbekistan in the development of nuclear energy noting they are ready to provide their technological solutions and share experience to train specialists of Uzbekistan in the field of nuclear energy. CIFAL plans to...
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2018/07/28
Country: Russia
Issue: Nuclear
(Sputnik International, Moscow, 13 July 2018) The construction work on the second unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), which is the first ever nuclear power plant for Bangladesh, is scheduled to be launched next Saturday. On July 8, the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (...
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2018/07/28
Country: China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, United Kingdom
Issue: Nuclear, Oil, Gas and Mining
(AFP, Vienna, 6 July 2018) Iran’s remaining partners in the 2015 nuclear deal vowed Friday to keep the energy exporter plugged into the global economy despite the US withdrawal and sanctions threat. Britain, France and Germany along with Russia and China met with Iran in Vienna to offer...
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2018/06/30
Country: Iran, USA
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Nuclear
(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 6 JUne 2018) Senior European officials conceded in a letter to the Trump administration that their efforts to save the Iranian nuclear accord by maintaining major trade, investment and export credits with Tehran are buckling in the face of planned U.S....
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2018/06/30
Country: Germany, Iran
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: European Union, Nuclear
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 17 June 2018) The German government has set up a special office to advise companies worried about their business dealings with Iran amid fears they will be targeted for US sanctions. The European signatories to a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran—Germany, France and...
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2018/06/29
Country: Russia
Issue: Nuclear
(Vestnik Kavkaza, Tashkent?, 4 June 018) Uzbekistan will be the first country in Central Asia to have a nuclear power plant. Rosatom proposes to build a station consisting of two modern VVER-1200 units of 3+ generation. A similar project is being implemented by Rosatom in Bangladesh. It is...
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2018/05/31
Country: France, Germany, Iran, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: European Union, Nuclear
(Reuters, Paris/Brussels, 3 May 2018) France, Britain and Germany all say they will stay in the deal even if the United States withdraws, and try to protect and foster European trade and ECA support with Iran, which has soared since the European Union lifted most of its economic sanctions. Iran...
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2018/04/30
Country: Russia
Issue: Nuclear
(UzDaily, Tashkent, 20 April 201) Uzbekistan plans to sign an agreement with Russia on construction of a nuclear power plant in 2018. Currently, Rosatom is building a similar station in Bangladesh at a cost estimated at about US$13 billion, of which US$11.3 billion is provided by Russia as a...
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2017/10/29
Country: Canada, France, USA
Issue: Nuclear, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Mining Technology, London, 3 October 2017) GoviEx Uranium has received expressions of interest from export credit agencies and project finance banks to arrange $220m of senior debt financing for the construction of the Madaouela uranium project in Niger. Conditions for the debt financing...
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2017/08/30
Country: Iran, Italy, Sweden, USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Aircraft, BRIC countries, Nuclear
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 14 August 2017) Trade with Italy is being restored slower than expected following the removal of international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, reads an opinion piece written by Iranian co-chair of Iran-Italy Chamber of Commerce in the news portal of...
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2017/07/30
Country: Russia
Issue: Debt, Nuclear
(Bloomberg, Moscow, 25 July 2017) As state secrets go, Russia’s program of export finance and loans to other nations might be one of the worst kept. While discussions about aiding cash-strapped allies frequently spill into the open, the Finance Ministry’s debt chief Konstantin Vyshkovsky says...
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2016/11/29
Issue: Aircraft, Arms Trade, Nuclear
(Financial Times, 27 October 2016, Tehran) A senior Iranian official has accused European governments of not being fully committed to implementation of a nuclear deal with Iran, blaming them for...
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2016/07/31
Country: Russia, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Nuclear
(Tehran Times, Tehran, 14 July 2016) Iran’s Ministry of Energy and UK Export Finance (UKEF) signed a memorandum of understanding in London over financing Iranian water and electricity projects, IRNA reported on July 13. “All the Iranian energy projects which require foreign investment or...
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2016/05/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States
Issue: Nuclear
(E&E Daily, Washington, 24 May 24 2016) A long-running political standoff over the Export-Import Bank of the United States threatens to delay billions of dollars in loans and other financial guarantees for overseas nuclear energy projects. Congress last year, after months of acrimony, voted...
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