“We have changed rhythms, we have changed priorities and now the major infrastructure projects are leading the country’s recovery effort,” said Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, George Karagiannis, speaking at the 7th Delphi Economic Forum.
“Large infrastructure projects are a basic and necessary condition for sustainable development,” said Mr. Karagiannis, noting that “we have essentially changed the big picture.”
“We have done what had not been done for so many years. We have made cuts that for years no one dared to touch,” he said. which on the one hand would upgrade the infrastructure of our country and on the other hand would greatly contribute to the restart of the construction industry “, which means” thousands of new jobs – direct and indirect – and development of our country “.
“During these 2.5-3 years we have shown what our direction is”, said Mr. Karagiannis and making a reflection of the reality, as he said, at the moment he noted: “At the moment the Greek State has resources – there is the NSRF “there is the RRF, we leverage private resources – and on the other hand there is a very large investment interest, to come to invest in our country many foreign, large funds and large companies, while the construction industry seems to be reborn.”
“A lot of substantial work has been done,” said the Undersecretary of Infrastructure and Transport, referring to the review of the institutional framework for public procurement, including private oversight, the appointment of specialized consultants for the country’s largest technical service through a framework agreement, the recent legislation of the model submission process “in order to take advantage of the specialized know-how of the private sector”, the establishment of the Observatory of Prices and Specifications, “a big breakthrough for our country, with equal participation of the private sector, which will is now a point of reference for public and private projects “.
Mr. Kargiannis also spoke about the utilization of all successful international practices, the modernization of the institutional framework, but also the claiming of all available alternative financial tools, while following a strict project management so that there is, as he said, at all times, the image of the stage of each project.
“We started and never looked for an alibi in the serious omissions of the previous government and set as our first priority the disengagement of large projects that were stuck either in court battles, or faced bureaucratic or licensing problems. It was the projects that gave the first signal of restart “They were the first signs of the resumption of infrastructure projects in our country, after a decade of underinvestment, essentially withering for the whole area.”
He also made special reference to the redesign of necessary projects that had been swamped, as he stressed, “in retrospective practices and maximalist mentalities of past decades”, projects very important for development, such as BOAK, the submarine Link – Salamis, the connection of Kimi PATHE, the bypass of Chalkida and Psachna, Bralos-Amfissa and several other projects “that were abandoned to their fate”, the change of the way of bidding the projects with the transfer of risk and responsibilities to the contractor, the projects with “green footprint” , but also in the “rapid and aggressive promotion of PPP projects.” “We benefit from know-how”, pointed out -among other things- the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport.
Source: Capital
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