RosOEZ Chief Andrei Alpatov will have to focus on legislation to prevent the failure of another tender for port zones’ creation.
Photo: Valery Melnikov
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Port Owners Not Lured by Benefits
The first tender to establish special economic zones of the port type ended by failure. The biggest sea ports refused to take part in the project and the sea port zone will appear only in Sovetskaya Gavan. The Airport Special Economic Zones will be set up in Ulyanovsk and Krasnoyarsk.
The winners of the first tender for establishing the Port Special Economic Zones were announced late on Monday. The commission OKed only three bids of 17 admitted for tender. They are the airport zones in Krasnoyarsk (airport Emeliyanovo) and Ulyanovsk (airport Ulyanovsk-Vostochny) and a port zone in Sovetskaya Gavan Sea Port, the Khabarovsk region.
The RF Transport Ministry had expected at least seven bids to be lodged for the sea port zones so that five of them could be finally approved. But none of the biggest sea ports appears too eager to participate in the project. The reason is that their management companies aren’t particularly willing to transfer the authority to the state-controlled RosOEZ (Russian Special Economic Zone) and will take part in the tenders provided the Act on the Port Special Economic Zones is amended.
“The absence of bid on behalf of the company and on behalf of the Leningrad region’s authorities roots in the non-correspondence of existing law to the expectations of port developers. The risks given by the law don’t match the preference provided by it,” Ust-Luga BOD Chairman Valery Izrailit explained yesterday.
The thing is that under the current regulations, RosOEZ will fund the project on behalf of the government, while the state-controlled OAO RosOEZ will control the land, stripping the asset management companies of a portion of their business.
And last but not least, three regions, Chechnya (Airport Special Economic Zone), Moscow (Special Economic Zone in Sheremetyevo) and Amur region (River Special Economic Zone) didn’t pass the qualification test of the tender.
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All the Article in Russian as of June 04, 2008
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