Tunisia

Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) assistance was requested in early 2003 to fund a study covering cross-sectorial aspects of private participation... Show More + in infrastructure in Tunisia, as well as a round table/dissemination workshop to discuss and build consensus on the findings of the report and disseminate the study to stakeholders. The PPIAF-funded study consisted of an action plan to attract private participation in infrastructure, as well as a report summarizing a legal study, macro-economic study, financial study, employment study, and report on international experience. The PPIAF-funded activity contributed to best practice in several ways. In particular, the close involvement of government officials and local consultants in the study laid foundations for greater ownership. Substance-wise, new types of contracts such as design-build-own, which had not been used in Tunisia before, were introduced. The ministry of transport thus requested PPIAF assistance in 2009 to establish template bidding documents for a concession contract of these logistics zones and to tailor them to a test case regarding the development by private investors of a logistic zone at the port of Rades that can be replicated in other zones. The conceding authority is the Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports (OMMP), and this concession will be the first case of private investment in logistics zones in Tunisia Show Less -