CPCS Transcom Limited

CPCS Transcom Limited

CPCS Transcom specialises in international transportation commercialization and privatization projects. The company was established in 1996 and is the result of the merger of Hickling Transcom, CPCS International and Upham International Corporation. CPCS Transcom combines staff, resources and experience in the management and commercialization of infrastructure organizations, particularly roads, railways, ports, and intermodal terminal facilities for projects around the world.

CPCS Transcom has completed over 700 projects in more than 60 countries working on every continent. Clients include national governments, public transit authorities, private and state-owned transportation organizations, and mining companies. We have also assisted the World Bank, CIDA, the African, Asian, Caribbean and the Inter American Development Banks, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the UNDP.

In 1997, we were proud to receive a Canadian Award for International Development for the Best Transport Services Project for our assignment to restructure the Kenya Ports Authority. The award was presented by the Honourable Don Boudria, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. More recently we were included as partners in a coveted award of excellence Awarded by the President of the World Bank.

We are once again the proud recipients of the Canadian Award for International Cooperaton. On April 22, 2004, the Minister for International Cooperation, the Honourable Aileen Carroll, presented CPCS Transcom with the Award for the Improvement of Physical Infrastructure or Improvement of Social Infrastructure for our Martime Sector Restructurng Project in Papua New Guinea.

SERVICES: Our client base is large and diverse. Over the years we have worked with clients in over half the countries of the world - 50 in just the past 5 years. Within those countries we work with national, state and local governments, state-owned companies and private corporations. We assist with infrastructure sectors - ranging from ports, railways, roads, airports and pipe lines to municipal transit, water and sewage and telecommunications. The common thread is facilitating the development of projects, finding sponsor and locating financing. Most countries have long lists of potential projects that need to be developed and implemented - but the barrier to successful implementation is usually financing. We combine the technical skills to facilitate project implementation and the commercial skills to help with project financing.

PROMOTING CHANGE: Governments and their agencies are often not used to dealing with the private sector. They do not consider how services can be delivered more effectively by using and applying private sector input or private sector principles. Private public partnerships need willing and capable partners on both sides. Governments may need to restructure, re-engineer, re-organise and refocus to develop their institutions. The restructuring of institutions relies on both an ability to understand the technical work being done within the institution, and the modern management techniques and approaches that can make the new organisation better than the old one. Staff training and improved communication are key ingredients.

Company Details

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Dorothy Vaughan
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Peter Kieran
Title: President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
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Services

Institutional Support

Service - Consultants

Private Sector Participation Private sector participation in Chinese infrastructure development has been fragmentary and largely ad hoc. Together with our partners in China, CPCS Transcom developed standardised legal structures to guide such future partnerships. In Tanzania we assisted the Government of Tanzania to concession the operation of the Dar es Salaam container terminal to a private investor bringing substantial cost savings and service improvements to port users. In West Africa we assisted the Governments of Mali and Senegal to concession the railway joining their two countries.

Engineering Support Too often the link between the design engineer and the financial analyst is broken. The economic or financially optimal design, will not be the design chosen by the engineer. We close that gap. We design cost effective infrastructure. We link the options analysis to the financability of the project to ensure that what is designed can be afforded. We have designed rural bridges in Thailand, roads in Laos, a new railway line in Mongolia and electrified tunnels in Western Canada, always with the ultimate target of a safe, effective and affordable final package.

Planning, Economis Analysis & Modelling Some years ago we developed OSCAR, a costing model installed on railways to help them manage and understand their costs of doing business. As a result, they can identify opportunities and means to raise tariffs, reduce costs and rationalize services. OSCAR has now been installed in about 20 railways around the world with excellent results. In Brazil we developed a traffic allocation model that helped us to analyze the feasibility of a major new railway in competition with trucking and inland waterways. These models are the backbone of our infrastructure feasibility studies, our market analyses and our business planning.

Investor Support Given their past experience, private companies are often understandably sceptical about promises made by Governments. We work with the private sector to carry out the necessary feasibility studies, planning, economic analysis and modelling to determine if the projects are real or not. We carry out preliminary and in some cases final design of projects including all major aspects of infrastructure civil works.

Poverty Alleviation And Social Impacts The stakeholders in private public partnerships are not only the Governments and private investor partners, but also the employees and the community within which the project or the investments will take place. Too often the concerns of these stakeholders are ignored. Often privatizations fail because of their real or perceived social impact, particularly their effects on the poor. We work with all parties to mediate these negative impacts. Improving the financial health of basic infrastructure services can free-up resources to finance social needs like schooling and medical services. Equally, developing redeployment strategies for redundant staff, is a critical component of our comprehensive product.

Laws And Regulations We also work with both governments and the private sector to make sure the rules are workable - that the legislative base for investment is in place, that the regulations governing the behaviour of both the parties to the investment are operative and realistic, that customer safety, social impacts and environmental controls are adequate and in place. If any of the above are inadequate, we help to fill in the missing pieces.