Opportunity Assessment
At a Glance
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The potential benefits of shared use include: creating economies of scale, unlocking extractive projects that may otherwise be unviable, promoting the development of non-extractive industry (if projects involve multi-purpose access), enhancing regional integration, and improving service delivery.
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The potential costs of shared use include: higher capital costs; a loss of efficiency; limited access to finance; delays in negotiations; and, where oversight capacity is limited, the added time and costs involved in setting up and operating a regulatory body.
Key Resources
- A Framework to Approach Shared Use of Mining-Related Infrastructure (Nicolas Maennling, Alpa Shah, Sophie Thomashausen, Perrine Toledano)
- Fostering the Development of Greenfield Mining-Related Transport Infrastructure through Project Financing (International Finance Corporation)
Topic Briefing
A cost-benefit analysis should be undertaken to decide the relative priority of transport infrastructure. Benefits of shared use could include: