Port Infrastructure Finance

Chapter 1. Port Infrastructure: What are we Talking About? PROFESSOR THIERRY VANELSLANDER, UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP Chapter 2. Predicting the Future: How to Estimate Future Demand for Port Throughput and Infrastructure Use PROFESSORS HILDE MEERSMAN AND EDDY VAN DE VOORDE UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP Chapter 3. Public-Private Partnerships in Ports: Where are we? PROFESSOR ROSARIO MACARIO, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LISBON Chapter 4. Port Authority Corporatisation: Leading Towards Their Privatisation? FRANC J. PIGNA, AEGIR PORT PROPERTY ADVISERS Chapter 5. Evidence on the Pricing of the Syndicated Loans for the Global Port Industry PROFESSOR COSTAS TH. GRAMMENOS, CASS BUSINESS SCHOOL, DR THEOLOGOS DERGIADES, INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY , and GEORGIOS MAZIS Chapter 6: Port Privatisation in the UK and Continental Europe: an Evaluation of Past Experience and New Drivers PATRICK VERHOEVEN, EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION Chapter 7. Financing Options for Ports: Observations from Asia PROFESSOR ANTHONY T.H. CHIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SHANE WALDRON, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT Chapter 8. Experiences with Bond Financing and Innovative Transport Project Financing in the United States: Some Evidence from Port and Port-Related Projects. SOTIRIOS THEOFANIS, PANTEC SA AND RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, and MARIA BOILE, HELLENIC INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT AND RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Chapter 9. Attracting Private Finance into African Ports DR. SHEILA FARRELL, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Chapter 10. How to Finance Future Port Infrastructure Investments? Potential Strategies for the Different Actors PROFESSORS DIMITRIOS TSAMBOULAS AND ATHANASIOS BALLIS, NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ATHENS Chapter 11. Future Port Infrastructure Finance: Lessons and Recommendations PROFESSORS HILDE MEERSMAN EDDY VAN DE VOORDE AND THIERRY VANELSLANDER, UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP