BOC Aviation has delivered the first of seven new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft for lease to Turkish Airlines. All seven aircraft are part of the company’s existing order book and will be powered by CFM LEAP-1B engines.

Nepal has inaugurated its second international airport, the Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA), in Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa), Lumbini Province.

SMBC Aviation Capital is investing into the upward swing in the global aviation industry, with the acquisition of Hong Kong-owned Goshawk Aviation for an enterpise value of US$6.7 billion.

Venture Global and Malaysia’s Petronas LNG have signed a 20-year sales and purchase agreement (SPA), covering 1 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquefied natural gas from the US supplier’s LNG facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

Many of the 2021 projects honoured in The Asset Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards have an environmental or clean energy focus. However, there was plenty of activity reflecting broader economic development aims, ranging from metro and rail networks and affordable housing to improving internet access and underserved communities. And it is one of these deals with a social and economic development goal that The Asset has chosen as its 2021 Global deal of the year - Indonesia's Satria satellite project.

Hong Kong-based Solar module maker ET Solar will invest about US$600 million to build a new 5-gigawatt wafer facility in northern Vietnam.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the government of Bangladesh have signed a US$200 million on-lending facility to Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) to finance infrastructure projects in the South Asian country.

Argentine wind farm operator Luz de Tres Picos has raised US$77.5 million in an offering of green bonds to fund the construction of two wind farms.

Japanese power generation company JERA has concluded a stock purchase agreement with an affiliate of funds managed by investment firm Stonepeak to acquire a 100% interest in two US thermal projects. The two projects have a total capacity of 1.63 gigawatts.

Chinese wind turbine maker and project developer Xinjiang Goldwin Science & Technology has signed loan facilities totalling US$270 million to refinance a group of wind farms in Argentina.

Alternative investment firm PAG, through funds managed by its real assets group, has agreed to acquire First Solar’s project development and operations platforms in Japan, which represent one of the largest solar pipelines in the country. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal creates one of the country’s largest renewable energy platforms with over 600MW of capacity.

Arlington, Virginia-based AES, one of the world's leading power companies, and its Vietnamese partner PV Gas have secured a licence to build a US$1.4 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in southern Vietnam to support the country’s energy transition.

Sinosteel Cam, a subsidiary of Sinosteel Corporation, has signed an agreement for a US$700 million investment in an iron ore project in Cameroon.