유럽부흥개발은행(EBRD)은 이집트 재정부의 민관협력부서와 함께 담수화 시설을 포함한 인프라 프로젝트에서의 민간부문 관여에 대해 협상을 전개하고 있다. 이집트 EBRD의 국가 감독관인 Philipter Woort는 이집트 매체에 이러한 인프라 프로젝트는 상·하수 플랜트를 포함하고 있다고 밝혔다.

그는 EBRD가 현재 나일강을 화물수송 수단으로 이용하는 방안을 개발하는 전략 연구를 통해 PPP 부서를 지원함과 동시에 넓은 범위의 프로젝트에 대해 부서와 긴밀하게 협력하고 있다고 말했다.

 

 

 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is negotiating with the public private partnership (PPP) unit of Egypt's ministry of finance over possible private sector involvement in the unit's infrastructure projects including a desalination facility.

 

Country director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Egypt, Philipter Woort, told Egypt media that these infrastructure projects included water and wastewater plants.

 

Ter Woort said the bank is working closely with the PPP unit and its head, Ater Hanoura, on a wide range of projects, including supporting the PPP Unit through a strategy study to develop the use of the Nile for cargo shipment.

 

For the seawater desalination projects in Safaga, El-Alamein, and Al-Tor, the PPP unit agreed with the EBRD to finance the appointment of advisors to offer a seawater desalination plant.

The Safaga Sea Water Desalination project's tendering procedures will start in November.  The project funding amounted to EGP 450 million (US$ 55 million). 

 

The El-Tor Sea Desalination Plant's funding amounted to EGP 250 million (US$ 30 million) and the EBRD financed the advisory company Atkins to tender the desalination projects, according to the PPP unit's data.

The current portfolio of the EBRD's projects in Egypt is some 740 million (about US$ 800 million).

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2015년 10월 27일]