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- Shared Use of Extractive Infrastructure and Resource Corridors
- Sharing Transport (Roads, Ports, Railways)
- Understanding What is at Stake
Understanding What is at Stake
At a Glance
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Before selecting a strategy for sharing the use of transport infrastructure, players involved and their particular interests, as well as the conditions of current national infrastructure.
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A review of extractive project proposals, as well as passenger and cargo forecasts, can help assess what’s at stake.
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Any significant item of extractive-related transport infrastructure might involve a variety of stakeholders, including: the lead extractive company with the anchor project, other extractive companies interested in sharing access, third-party users interested in multi-purpose access (which may require access fees), financiers, and regulators, among others.
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In-depth consultation with all the stakeholders involved in a potential or existing infrastructure project will go far toward ensuring the success of a plan to share the infrastructure’s use.
Key Resources
- A Framework to Approach Shared Use of Mining-Related Infrastructure (Nicolas Maennling, Alpa Shah, Sophie Thomashausen, Perrine Toledano)
- International Telecommunication Union Statistics (International Telecommunication Union)
- Fostering the Development of Greenfield Mining-Related Transport Infrastructure through Project Financing (International Finance Corporation)
Topic Briefing
For policy makers considering a plan to share extractive-focused transport infrastructure, the first step is to determine the importance of potential transport infrastructure investments and compare these to existing national and regional transport infrastructure and future plans. Project proposals, as well as passenger and cargo throughput projections can help their assessment of what’s potentially at stake.