Research Update: Autopistas Metropolitanas De Puerto Rico LLC Ratings Placed On Watch Negative - S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research

Research Update: Autopistas Metropolitanas De Puerto Rico LLC Ratings Placed On Watch Negative

Research Update: Autopistas Metropolitanas De Puerto Rico LLC Ratings Placed On Watch Negative - S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research
Research Update: Autopistas Metropolitanas De Puerto Rico LLC Ratings Placed On Watch Negative
Published Apr 13, 2020
9 pages (3989 words) — Published Apr 13, 2020
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We are placing our 'BBB-' rating on Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico LLC's existing $435 million 6.75% senior secured notes due June 2035, $181 million 7.5% senior secured notes due December 2038, and $120 million 7% senior secured notes due December 2038 on CreditWatch with negative implications. Due to the pandemic, Puerto Rico is currently under a territory-wide, government-ordered shutdown that includes restrictions on travel as well as a curfew, which is in place until at least mid-April. Daily traffic levels have fallen roughly 60% below management's 2020 forecast and 2019 actual traffic since the shutdown was ordered. The project is heavily exposed to passenger traffic, from which it generates 96% of its transaction volume, and, therefore, we expect it

  
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...We are placing our '###-' rating on Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico LLC's existing $435 million 6.75% senior secured notes due June 2035, $181 million 7.5% senior secured notes due December 2038, and $120 million 7% senior secured notes due December 2038 on CreditWatch with negative implications. - Due to the pandemic, Puerto Rico is currently under a territory-wide, government-ordered shutdown that includes restrictions on travel as well as a curfew, which is in place until at least mid-April. Daily traffic levels have fallen roughly 60% below management's 2020 forecast and 2019 actual traffic since the shutdown was ordered. - The project is heavily exposed to passenger traffic, from which it generates 96% of its transaction volume, and, therefore, we expect it to be adversely affected through the duration of the pandemic. - We have, as such, updated our base case forecast to assume reductions in passenger traffic of 60% through April 2020, 25% decline from May through August,...

  
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S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research. "Research Update: Autopistas Metropolitanas De Puerto Rico LLC Ratings Placed On Watch Negative" Apr 13, 2020. Alacra Store. May 02, 2024. <http://www.alacrastore.com/s-and-p-credit-research/Research-Update-Autopistas-Metropolitanas-De-Puerto-Rico-LLC-Ratings-Placed-On-Watch-Negative-2411218>
  
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S&P Global Ratings’ Credit Research. (). Research Update: Autopistas Metropolitanas De Puerto Rico LLC Ratings Placed On Watch Negative Apr 13, 2020. New York, NY: Alacra Store. Retrieved May 02, 2024 from <http://www.alacrastore.com/s-and-p-credit-research/Research-Update-Autopistas-Metropolitanas-De-Puerto-Rico-LLC-Ratings-Placed-On-Watch-Negative-2411218>
  
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