Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 Market
Overview — 7 Global — 8 Mega-Urban
Regions: Opportunities And Challenges For
Infrastructure — 9 Mega-Urban Regions: Investment
Opportunities And Risks — 10 Table: The World’s 30
Largest Urban Agglomerations — 12 Table: The World’s
Richest Cities In 2020 By GDP — 16 Table: The
World’s Fastest Growing Urban Areas — 18 SWOT
Analysis — 20 Estonia Infrastructure Industry
SWOT — 20 Estonia Political SWOT — 20
Estonia Economic SWOT — 21 Estonia Business Environment
SWOT — 21 Major Infrastructure Developments and Key
Projects — 22 Transport Infrastructure
Overview — 22 New and Ongoing
Projects — 24 Airports – Developments In
2008 — 24 Ports – Developments In
2008 — 24 Roads – Developments In
2008 — 25 Railways – Developments In
2008 — 25 Energy & Utilities Infrastructure
Overview — 27 New and Ongoing
Projects — 28 Power Plants and Transmission Grids –
Developments In 2008 — 29 Water – Developments In
2007 — 30 Construction Overview — 31
New and Ongoing Projects — 31 Commercial Construction
– Developments In 2008 — 32 Industrial Construction
– Developments In 2008 — 33 Table: Major Projects
– Transport — 34 Table: Major Projects –
Utilities — 35 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 36 Table: Industry Forecast
Data — 36 Business Environment — 38
Table: Regional Infrastructure Business Environment
Ratings — 41 Limits of Potential
Returns — 42 Infrastructure — 42
Country Structure — 42 Risk to Realisation of Potential
Returns — 42 Market Risks — 42 Country
Risk — 42 Project Finance Ratings: Outlook For
Europe — 43 Industry Trend
Analysis — 43 Table: Design and Construction
Rating — 44 Table: Commissioning and Operating
Rating — 45 Table: Overall Project Finance
Rating — 47 Foreign Direct
Investment — 48 Labour Force — 49
Legal Framework — 50 Tax Regime — 51
Macroeconomic Outlook — 52 Table: Estonia - Economic
Activity — 54 Political Outlook — 55
Business Environment — 58 Ratings
Overview — 58 Country Snapshot: Estonia Demographic
Data — 60 Section 1: Population — 60
Table: Demographic Indicators, 2005-2030 — 60 Table:
Rural/Urban Breakdown, 2005-2030 — 61 Section 2: Education
And Healthcare — 61 Table: Education,
2002-2004 — 61 Table: Vital Statistics,
2005-2030 — 61 Section 3: Labour Market And Spending
Power — 62 Table: Employment Indicators,
2001-2006 — 62 Table: Consumer Expenditure, 2000-2012
(US$) — 62 Table: Average Annual Wages,
2000-2012 — 63 BMI Forecast
Modelling — 64 How We Generate Our Industry
Forecasts — 64 Construction
Industry — 65 Sources — 66 Project
Finance Ratings Methodology — 66 Operating Risks –
Commercial Construction — 68 Operating Risks –
Energy and Utilities — 70 Operating Risks
–Transport — 71
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