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N°
7
October
1997
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Lettre de l'Institut des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Equipement
et de l'Environnement pour le Développement.
Editorial
Ports:
catalysing France's supply potential Today's
international port scene is marked by "globalisation" which heightens
competition, by the integration of maritime transport in a multimodal logistic
system and by the increasing momentum given by the private sector.
Leading
international groups have already invested in airport and seaport management,
particularly in Asia and Australia. This rapidly expanding market is partly structured
around projects of the B.O.T. type, which draw on private sector initiative and
financing.
The question is how to strengthen France's presence on the international
front in a field - the port sector - in which this country still lags behind other
developed countries.
The conference on ports organised by ISTED in June on
the subject of the "Public-Private Partnership" showed that a study
is underway on the most useful policy options for France's international action
in this field. This effort concerns not only all the public and private actors
(Administrations, autonomous ports, engineering companies, port trades, contractors,
the bank sector, etc.) but also the financial backers. The experience in other,
more advanced sectors (water, telecommunications) must also be mobilised for the
port sector.
To begin with, priority must obviously be given to identifying
and grouping France's supply base in the port sector. For so far, no institution
exists, as it does in the civil aviation or surface transport sectors, that can
federate all the parties concerned.
In giving impulse to this study, ISTED
is perfectly fulfilling its role, which is that of encouraging all upstream initiatives
conducive to the development of our presence on the international front, by bringing
together the public and private actors. Jean
Smagghe,
President of ISTED and International Association of Ports and
Harbors (IAPH) Contents
- Ports: Catalysing France's supply
potential
- Feature: Sea ports: inventing
new management systems
Towards increased participation of private
operators and closer involvement of users. - Infomation
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