Project with a Large Multilateral Agency on a Group Vessel Financing

The Client, an international financial institution and multilateral agency that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries to pursue capital projects needed assistance to attract private sector participation for waterways transportation in a metropolitan city in India. They wanted to decongest the Metropolitan area and the map production/consumption zone in the state through one of its chief river sources and create a suitable financing mechanism for an effective PP Model.  

The study for the Agency included the development of the following: 

• Identifying the production/consumption zones in the state, and analyse vehicle movements through roadways  
• Analysing the feasibility of identified RO-RO points- infrastructure, approach road connectivity, and land availability 
• Conducting Stakeholder Interview government departments, govt finance corporations, public and private sector banks, and private RORO operators 
• Performing reference benchmarking of other country’s similar projects, successful PP Models and understand need of the private sectors from an operational perspective 
• Conducting market assessment and a profitability analysis for the RO-RO players 

• Onboarding government institutions for PP Models 
• Designing financial mechanism for RORO pilot implementation