Developing Best Practices for Promoting Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure: Ports

Asian Development Bank (ADB) 2000 - This volume of a five-volume set reviews the various arrangements used throughout the world to transfer public port activities and assets to the private sector. It examines the trend toward terminal concessions and the transition from operating ports to landlord ports, and considers best practice. Appendix 5 includes useful summaries of six basic contractual relationships that can be used to increase private sector participation in the port sector, forms of privatization and the related objectives.

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