8月2日、一般財団法人運輸総合研究所で開催された第1回「鉄道整備と沿線開発に関する研究会」に副会長の植村が委員として参加しました。同研究会には、山内代表理事も運輸総合研究所の所長として参加しているほか、学識経験者に加えて国土交通省、JICA、JOIN、URといった政府系組織や鉄道関連等の民間企業から委員が参加しています。

　冒頭で同研究所の宿利会長から研究の全体像の話があった後、ASEAN諸国の主要都市におけるケーススタディに向けた予備調査の結果報告がありました。話題提供としてJR東日本の方から新駅整備を含む品川開発プロジェクトの話があり、植村副会長からOPPSの都市鉄道PPP候補案件の紹介を行いました。

　研究会では年度内に計３回の会合を行うとともに、ASEAN主要都市において鉄道整備と沿線開発をテーマとしたセミナーを開催する予定です。各都市の交通問題に対して、PPPの事例研究やTOD (Transit Oriented Development)の活用等も踏まえた具体的な解決策の提案を行っていくことをめざし活動を進めます。

The First OPPS Forum

On July 26, the first OPPS Forum was held at Trustcity Conference Marunouchi (a rental meeting place) in Tokyo,  to communicate and share the PPP projects information with regular members of 11 companies, 1 semi member company, and Mr. Miyasaka, a chief of Div. of Overseas project of MLIT(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Tourism) as an observer.

 Secretariat of OPPS provided the following project information:

1,   3 PPP projects  in 2 countries from original source of OPPS

2,   13 PPP projects  in 5 ASEAN countries from past Yen Loan related

3,   5 highway PPP projects  in Philippine

 Also, one of the regular member companies, Index Consulting introduced 8 railway/highway PPP projects in Africa area, and we had active discussion about the projects after that.

Ongoing basis, we will try hard to listen to each members’ ideas and plans for such PPP projects, and collect the valuable information about PPP project to be from all over the world as well.

 The second OPPS Forum is planning to be held in Sep. 18.

1st OPPS Forum

“Workshop of the Development of Railway and its Around the Area” by JTTRI

 On May 13th, 2019, the first study meeting for  “Workshop of the the Development of Railways and its Around the Area” organized by JTTRI, Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute was held in Tokyo. There were some reviews of the related researchs, and also “The Report of the Hudson yard project” in NY. “the Hudson Yard” is one of the successful examples of TOD(Transit Oriented Development).

 Mr. Yamauchi, the president of both OPPS and JTTRI, and Mr. Uemura, the vice -president of OPPS attended the workshop as regular members. OPPS is going to cooperate with JTTRI closely from now on.

Next workshop is planning to be held in this August.

JTTRI, Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute:   http://www.jterc.or.jp

2019 Regular General Meeting

 On April 10^th, 2019, we are proud to announced that a regular general meeting of Organization for PPP Promotion Support aka “OPPS” was held in Tokyo, Japan.

 In the front of the representatives attending of 14 members of corporations including the new member of Nippon Steel Corporation, two agenda of “Business Report, Business Balance, and Financial Statements in the fiscal year of 2018” and also “Formulation of Business Plan and Budget of 2019” were approved respectively.

 We reported, regarding the OPPS activities of 2018, that we had the inaugural meeting in December, opened a new website for OPPS, and was creating the original screening systems for PPP projects. Subsequently, a current status of progress of PPP in Japan was explained. As for the new activity plan of 2019, Mr. Okumura, a Chief of Overseas Project Division of MLIT(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Tourism), and Mr. Uemura, a Vice president of OPPS provided some information of  how to proceed these projects from now on.

 We confirmed that in this brilliant year of the new Japanese era of Reiwa, we would try hard to get the promising PPP projects information from various source over the the world for the first memorable year of PPP in Japan. The information of some projects should be given to the members as soon as received, and also, we are planning to have OPPS forum bi-monthly to facilitate the communication among the OPPS members and related government offices.

Prof. Yamauchi, President of OPPS

会員相互の交流と情報共有を目的としたOPPSフォーラムの第1回会合を7月26日にトラストシティカンファレンス丸の内で開催しました。本会員11社・準会員1社と、オブザーバーである国土交通省海外プロジェクト推進課から宮坂課長が参加されました。

　案件情報は事務局より、①OPPS独自の情報ソースによるPPP候補案件（2ヶ国3案件）、②既往円借款案件のPPP候補（アセアン5ヶ国13案件）、③フィリピンにおける高速道路PPP候補案件（5案件）について情報提供を行いました。また、本会員である株式会社インデックスコンサルティングから、アフリカ地域における鉄道/道路PPP候補（8案件）の紹介があり、会員相互で意見交換を行いました。今後は各案件に対する会員企業の関心について意見交換を行うとともに、事業化可能性の確認に必要なデータの収集を進めて参ります。

　第2回のOPPSフォーラムは9月18日（水）に開催する予定です。