Aberdeen Investments: Infrastructure in action
To spotlight the expertise of Aberdeen Investments’ Concession Infrastructure team, we produced a reporter-led documentary anchored by Sameer Amin, Global Head of Concession Infrastructure.
Using London’s Silvertown Tunnel as a case study, we captured live infrastructure in motion—navigating cable cars, buses, and river barges to create a dynamic, on-location narrative. The result is an explainer-style film that brings complex investment themes to life through real-world examples and first-person commentary.
Speaker: Sameer Amin, Global Head of Concession Infrastructure
This is the Silvertown Tunnel. The first new road crossing of the River Thames since 1991.
It was built for London by the Riverlinx consortium, with Aberdeen Investments as its biggest shareholder.
The newly opened tunnel is a testament to modern engineering. It carries around 22,000 vehicles under the Thames every day.
It has helped facilitated a huge boost to cross-river bus travel, with all routes zero-emission and helped alleviate chronic congestion at other nearby crossings.
Its construction had a strong environmental focus. Recycled cement ingredients and hundreds of thousands of tonnes of spoil removed by barge, not by congestion-causing lorries.
It was a massive undertaking, yet the entire project was delivered on time, and in just five years. And with very little upfront cost to the UK taxpayer.
Instead, Riverlinx raised £1bn from private financiers including Aberdeen Investments, which is now being repaid by Transport for London over the next 25 years, supported by charges levied on tunnel users.
This is just one example of Aberdeen’s concession infrastructure investments.
Over the past 25 years we’ve invested in 124 projects across the globe in critical public services such as hospitals, schools, government accommodation, transportation such as road, bridges and airports, as well as energy transition, including biogas.
For example: The New Royal Adelaide Hospital, the single largest hospital in the Southern hemisphere at the time of construction. And Carlsbad in San Diego, California, the largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere.
In a period of reduced public infrastructure investment, projects like these can illustrate how the private finance initiative can deliver government infrastructure needs efficiently and sustainably.
