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Contracted concessional assets (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Contracted concessional assets [Abstract] |
Movements of contracted concessional assets | The detail of contracted concessional assets included in the heading ‘Contracted concessional assets’ as of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 is as follows:
|  | Balance as of March 31, |  |  | Balance as of December 31, |
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
|  | ($ in thousands) |
Contracted concessional assets cost |  |  | 10,751,202 |  |  |  | 10,633,769 |
Amortization and impairment |  |  | (1,650,654 | ) |  |  | (1,549,499 | )
Total |  |  | 9,100,548 |  |  |  | 9,084,270 |

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