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Report on Japan's infrastructure topic on weekend.
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City of Kitakyushu is entering into international water business with private partners. The first customer is Hai Phong, the third largest city in Vietnam with population of 1.85 million. Hai Phong is reportedly planning to make four water treatment plants to cover acute demand increase, as its urbanization flourishes. Currently, water service department of Kitakyushu is communicating with Hai Phong to make detailed plan. In Japan, water and wastewater businesses are operated only by municipalities according to historical regulations. Private sector doesn't have experience of water business operation in domestic and international market. However, there are exceptional cases of major...
Japanese water seeks for PPP conduit abroad
2011/02/19
Water infrastructure business abroad is one of key agendas Japanese government is currently promoting as the national growth strategy. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) estimates global water business market will grow from USD 360 billion in 2007 to USD 870 billion in 2025. But a portion Japanese manufacturers can get from this large pie is very small at present, because they have focused in just selling equipments, not in investing in long-term business operation. From infrastructure investment viewpoint, most business benefits will come from series of annual cash flow generated by water expense that end users will pay....
Grace of the nature has satisfied Japanese people with drinkable water so many years. Until early 1990s, most Japanese didn't know water was the item to buy for drinking. From every faucet in every house, fresh water flew out directly to fill a glass when in a hot season. Every Japanese believed the water coming from the tap is drinkable. So, visiting other country, after arriving at hotel, when they came to know the water from the tap wasn't drinkable, they were really astonished. This was an old story, however. Present people in Japan frequently buy bottled water and they...
Japanese trading house Marubeni has been aggressively expanding infrastructure PPP business from 2000s. As an IPP (Independent Power Producer), Marubeni already has 26 GW gross generation capacity with 7.7 GW net capacity (owned share) mainly in Asia and Middle East. Since world's infrastructure investors are quoted to evaluate an IPP with more than 6 GW net capacity as qualified, Marubeni has become the one. Regarding water PPP business, Marubeni has six special purpose companies in Mexico, Chile, Peru and China, and two OM projects in Qatar. Served population in total is 4.3 million. The trading house vigorously vowed that the...
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