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Argentina Launches $1 Billion Tender to Privatize Half of National Freight Rail Network

The Economy Ministry has opened a fifty-year concession tender covering three strategic freight rail corridors, requiring at least eight hundred million dollars in capital investment under the Large Investment Incentive Regime as the government seeks to support agricultural and industrial exports.
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YPF and International Partners Submit Fifty-One Billion-Dollar Argentina LNG Project for Investment Incentives

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Argentina’s Investment Incentive Regime Begins Driving Energy and Rail Projects

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Argentina Says 2026 Debt Refinancing Needs Have Been Exceeded as Merval Holds Near Record Levels

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