EPC Projects & Infrastructure Development in India & South East Asia Outlook Update (Q1 2020)

Curfews and lockdowns due to COVID 19 outbreak has impacted ongoing infra projects and government spending on relief measures may limit future infra spends

The COVID-19-led slowdown is likely to hurt the prospects of infrastructure players severely in Q1 2020. Companies, which were already feeling the heat on project execution and project closures, may face more uncertainties related to project completion, new project financing and future order flows.

Players in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), transmission and distribution (T&D), road construction and building segments are all seeing their projects' progress getting impacted with the Central and state governments' directives for lockdowns and curfews in India and SEA.

Due the corona virus outbreak the governments focus has turned for providing relief measures for which huge sum of funds have been allocated for providing necessary equipment for tackling the situation which will further lead to limiting governments ability to fund future infrastructure projects. The dilemma caused due the corona pandemic is restraining the EPC and other market players from taking any big decisions pertaining to new project execution in such tough times meaning the downfall in growth of the infrastructure sector.

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Key Trends

• We are seeing an emergence of the need for technology providers, and service providers for smart infrastructure - along with the traditional set of construction agencies, contractors, and developers.
• Before the total lockdown due to the corona virus it was seen that Indian as well as SEA countries government were investing huge in the infrastructure sector with major investments being done for construction of new roads & highways, also focus was on the development of railway infrastructure and construction of new airports was the area which also attracted investment during the quarter.

Key Investments

• JSW Infrastructure is investing INR 300 crores to develop the container terminal which will have a capacity of 400,000 twenty foot-equivalent units.
• The Indian government is set to award 50 railway stations for redevelopment of entailing an investment of around INR 50,000 crore in 2020-21.
• Two new roads will be built with total investment of USD 235.3 Million connecting the northern mountainous region with Hanoi in Vietnam.

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