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Contracted concessional assets (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
Contracted concessional assets [Abstract] |
Movements of contracted concessional assets | The detail of contracted concessional assets included in the heading ‘Contracted concessional assets’ as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 is as follows:
| Balance as of June 30, |  |  | Balance as of December 31, |
| 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
| ($ in thousands) |
Contracted concessional assets cost |  |  | 10,433,886 |  |  |  | 10,475,828 |
Amortization and impairment |  |  | (2,074,110 | ) |  |  | (1,926,647 | )
Total |  |  | 8,359,776 |  |  |  | 8,549,181 |

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