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Press Statement for Immediate Release<\/strong><\/p>\n MILUPI IMPRESSED WITH BRAZIL\u2019S SECOND BIGGEST PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT <\/strong><\/p>\n Sao Paulo. <\/strong>Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi is impressed with Brazil\u2019s second biggest Public Private Partnership (PPP0) project in the State of Sao Paulo under the Tamoios concession.<\/p>\n Mr. Milupi who is also Public Private Partnerships PPP Council Vice Chairperson says the visit to Tamoios Highway has given him and the PPP Council a new perspective on how to handle PPC.<\/p>\n The Minister notes that the Tamoios Highway project has revealed the extent of how a PPP road infrastructure is supposed to be so that the user gets the best out of it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that the Tamoios highway is a smart road installed with over 1000 monitoring cameras, free tow service, animal rescue unit, ambulances and Doctors stationed at the Operational Control centre is a challenge to us to go and revise our PPP projects back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Milupi adds that the visit to Sao Paulo has informed his delegation on how Public Private Partnership is being used as a main avenue to deliver not only infrastructure development in forms of roads, rail lines, bridges but also other projects.<\/p>\n He appreciated that in Sao Paulo his team was shown a city park and airport that are all under PPP while his team was more focused on road infrastructure.<\/p>\n The PPP Council Vice Chairperson has challenged his officers to take the interactions and lessons learnt in Brazil and ensure that they go back and explore other means of using PPP to bring development in Zambia.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Tamoios Executive Director Luis Felipe Neves assured the Mr. Milupi and his delegation of Tamoios\u2019s support should Zambia wish to undertake a similar project.<\/p>\n Mr. Neves said Tamoios is a giant construction firm with decades of experience and is ready to help Zambia realise her ambitious infrastructure development agenda.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are several services available to users on the, such as traffic inspection vehicles, free towing services for light and heavy motor vehicles, ambulances, a water truck and vehicles for animal rescue off the road and these are things that you can go and apply in Zambia,\u201d said Mr. Neves.<\/p>\n He added that there is also SOS telephone service open 24 hours a day on the road that allows direct contact between the user and the Operational Control Centre through cameras, as well as access to information about Tamoios highway.<\/p>\n The Tamoios Concessionaire assumed the operation and maintenance of the Tamoios Highway on April 18, 2015 of a road that connects S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos to Caraguatatuba, in order to improve and modernize the path to the North Coast of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n In addition to operating with a focus on the safety, comfort and efficiency of the highway, the Tamoios Concessionaire is responsible for the conservation and maintenance of the existing structures within the road system, which cover the domain strips and the complementary facilities.<\/p>\n In general, the scope of the Concessionaire is the pavement of the runways, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, walkways, the horizontal signage (pavement paintings), the vertical signage (signs), the landscaping and the cleaning of the highway.<\/p>\n To complete the responsibility of the Concessionaire, all obligations are reported to the Granting Authority, giving transparency of its achievements.<\/p>\n Issued by Lloyd Kapusa<\/strong><\/p>\n First Secretary-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n Embassy of the Republic of Zambia<\/strong><\/p>\n Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Press Statement for Immediate Release MILUPI IMPRESSED WITH BRAZIL\u2019S SECOND BIGGEST PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT Sao Paulo. Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi is impressed with Brazil\u2019s second biggest Public Private Partnership (PPP0) project in the State of Sao Paulo under the Tamoios concession. 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