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Report on Japan's infrastructure topic on weekend.
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Japanese government is planning to sell rights of airport management and operation of 27 government owned airports including Haneda (Tokyo) and New Chitose (Sapporo). Government thinks there are large rooms to improve profitability of these airports after examining best practices of international airport business, but such an improvement is enabled only by private sector. Legislation for the government to sell these rights is underway. Within 2012, “market sounding” which means request for proposals on business model or on type of concession for each airport is scheduled to start. These proposals are treated as “non-binding” ones used only for collecting ideas,...
Japanese High Speed Rail (HSR) Shinkansen runs on dedicated rail lines, but in some areas, exceptional type of Shinkansen called Mini Shinkansen runs on conventional ones. Though it isn't a news, as Mini Shinkansen commenced operation in 1997, this fact may have a unique value in today's global HSR construction trend in terms of budget. By definition, Shinkansen is passenger electric train which runs on dedicated rail lines of standard gauge at speeds of 200 km/h or higher. Current operation of Shinkansen, however, is keeping around 300 km/h on favorably conditioned section. You can see several types of Shinkansen trains...
According to Japanese government cabinet office, as of 2007, Japan's public pension has 70 million members with more than $2 trillion asset. In addition to that, there are numerous enterprise pension systems of about $1 trillion asset in total. Such huge capital pool could give birth to a great infrastructure investor, but things don’t go like that so far. However, interests in overseas infrastructure investment are swelling among fund managers of pension systems, as more and more economic paper articles are telling its acute necessity and success stories. Political leaders of emerging countries may know such huge money is pooled...
Central Japan Railway, one of Japan’s high speed rail operators earning more than US$ 15 billion annually, with Japanese project finance lender JBIC and with relevant companies, is bidding for Florida’s high speed rail planned to launch in 2015. Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is currently in the process of qualification of bidders for “Design-Build-Finance-Operate Maintain” concessionaire covering 86 miles between Orlando and Tampa. Also it is planning to build 240 miles between Orland and Miami, though its procurement plan isn’t disclosed. High speed rail in Florida has been longed for a quarter century, according to the presentation of information...
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