Abertis and Goldman Sachs preferred bidder for toll road in Puerto RicoGoethals Bridge P3 project's shortlistThree consortia have been shortlisted to design, build, finance and maintain the US$1.6 billion replacement Goethals Bridge.The teams shortlisted by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) are:

• Goethals Bridge Development Group (ACS Infrastructure Development, Dragados USA, Gannett Fleming Engineers & Architects, Granite Construction Northeast, John Laing Investments, TY Lin International);
• Metro Bridge Partners (MNII USA II, PB Americas, Skanska Infrastructure Development, Skanska Koch, Skanska USA Civil Northeast, Traylor Bros);
• NYNJ Link Partnership (Kiewit Infrastructure; Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets, Parsons Transportation Group of New York, Transfield Services North America, Weeks Marine).

PANYNJ is due to issue the final request for proposals in the 3Q of this year with a deadline for responses before the end of this year. PANYNJ is to execute the contrat by Q2 of 2012. The aim is to complete construction of the project during 2017.