Plenary Group seeks PPP opportunities in NZ

Plenary Group seeks PPP opportunities in NZ
Transmission Gully, a motorway north of Wellington, was built using the PPP model. (Image: Getty)
Oliver Lewis
A leading Australian infrastructure investor managing projects worth billions of dollars worldwide is actively hunting for opportunities in New Zealand.The coalition government, particularly transport and infrastructure ministers Simeon Brown and Chris Bishop, has discussed the benefits of public-private partnerships (PPPs) as part of a drive to employ alternative funding and financing tools to deliver more infrastructure.Under the PPP model – which has been used in NZ to varying degrees of success, including for the Transmission Gully an...

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