ADB and MTBS provide Port PPP Course to Thai Marine Department

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in partnership with MTBS, led a “Public-Private Partnership (PPP)” capacity building program for the Thai Marine Department (TMD), which took place in the period 13 – 21 July and 1 – 7 August 2018 in Bangkok. MTBS’ Experts provided a 2-day course for 130 TMD staff members, and then continued the course with smaller groups of attendants. The PPP Course included 7 modules on various topics, including Port PPP Models, Port PPP Lifecycle, Value for Money, Port PPP Transactions, Port PPP Financing, Port PPP Legal Framework and Port PPP Case Studies. At the end of the course, TMD staff members developed their own PPP project cases for real-life port projects in Thailand.