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Kwong-Meng Ho
Kwong-Meng
Ho
Evaluation of global container port investment projects
Loughborough University
2018
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Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
2018-02-16 09:48:02
Thesis
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Evaluation_of_global_container_port_investment_projects/9455498
In the past, the main sources of government funding or borrowing for seaport
developments in developing and less developed countries were international funding
agencies, such as the World Bank, the European Bank, the Asian Development Bank and
the African Development Bank. In the last ten years, privatisation through Joint Ventures
(JV) or Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Concessions has emerged as the main sources of
finance. Examples of these are the privatisation programmes in Malaysia, India and
China. Within the last decade, industrialised countries such as the United Kingdom and
Netherlands have also placed great emphasis on enhancing the efficiency and productivity
of their seaports by privatisation. Private seaport operators are emerging to invest in
foreign seaport projects. [Continues.]