The Nicaraguan private sector has proposed that the operation of the port be awarded in concession or a public-private scheme used in order to improve the efficiency and management of the port terminal.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Representatives of the Higher Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep) analyzed the scheme under which the Honduran port terminal in Cortes operates, which was granted in concession to the Central American Port Operator (OPC), to evaluate if it would be feasible to replicate the model in Port Maroon.
Gustavo Viales, president of the Nicaraguan Association of Shipping Agents (ANAN), and Dean García, executive director of the Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Apparel Industry (Anitec),"... when consulted by El Nuevo Diario, said it would be a very viable idea to make the necessary investments in the most important port of the country, which the State has not been able to do.'Everything is related to investment.The State, through the National Port Company (EPN), has not been able during this period to make the necessary investments, both in infrastructure and in its own logistics, and the economy is growing. Therefore a bottleneck is being created," explained Viales.
"...Dean García, executive director of the Anitec, said that Cosep's proposal is in the context of the Public-Private Partnership Act, which allows for projects to be developed jointly in order to improve and develop the country's productive infrastructure."
After the workers and union sectors rejected the bill creating the Public-Private Partnership Regime in Panama, the Assembly decided to suspend its discussion in the second debate.
Responding to the request to extend the period of consultations by a sector of the country, the plenary of the National Assembly suspended discussion of the second debate of Bill 12, which creates the Private Public Association Regime (APP) as a tool for the development of private sector investment, social and job creation, reported the government on August 27, 2019.
The National Assembly of Panama approved in first debate the bill establishing the Public-Private Partnership Regime.
On August 19, the Economy and Finance Commission approved in the first debate the project that seeks to regulate the contracts, generally long term, between the public and private sectors for the design, construction, repair, expansion, financing, operation, maintenance, administration and/or supply of projects and services such as roads, energy, telecommunications, public transportation, ports and water treatment, among others.
Airports, power plants, water and sewerage and port terminals are part of the public works under concession in Honduras.
Since the establishment, two years ago, of the Investment Facility under the scheme of the Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships (COALIANZA) there have been four infrastructure projects concessioned totaling $869 million.
Businessmen suggest to fully or partially concession prisons.
The National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), presented a public safety strategy plan, which includes the proposal for the country to allow prisons to be given in concession, either wholly or through public-private partnerships.
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