Infrastructural Forum of St. Petersburg

On May 26th, the informational and educational center of Vodokanal of St. Petersburg, the State Unitary Enterprise hosted a forum dedicated to the issues of public and private partnerships and infrastructure development in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Participants in the dialogue were the representatives of various spheres of business and executive authorities of the region. Under the program of the forum various projects have been discussed in the field of construction, energy, transport, social services (education, health), that were implemented, or had the opportunity to be implemented with the help of the PPP mechanism.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, Head of the Public and Private Partnership (PPP) participated in the first session of the Strategic Forum “Construction and infrastructure projects. How to enhance the opportunities of investors”. In his speech, Vladimir said that the main problem of implementation of the infrastructure projects is their lack of financing and that PPP mechanism and the concession agreements, as a friendly and reliable tools, can solve this problem, although the regulatory framework for these mechanisms still has to be improved and worked out for their better functioning.