Tawap Kamen Investment Group
Empowering PNG TKI Group is helping to pave the way for Papua New Guinea’s resource-led development, backing major projects with exemplary service and unrivalled experience Writer: Jonathan Dyble / Project Manager: Donovan Smith Papau New Guinea is a country worth keeping an eye on.Entangled in the array of islands strewn between the Southeast Asian mainland and Australia, it has a lot in common with its archipelago neighbours of Indonesia and the Philippines. From its sun-kissed sand beaches and untouched forest-cloaked mountains to flamboyant, enthralling local cultures, it resembles something of an earthly paradise.Behind closed doors, however, PNG is taking great strides, its GDP having exploded since the turn of the millennium, now valued at $23.5 billion – up from the $3.5 billion recorded two decades earlier.The driving force behind this astounding growth? A buoyant extractives sector that is only just getting started in the eyes of Tawap Kamen Investment Group (TKI) General Manager Peter Pridgeon.“Even today, PNG is relatively untouched,” he explains. “Mining activities have been widespread here for generations, yes, but with so many developing opportunities and minerals only now being unearthed, it’s a great time to be here working and discovering what’s out there.“The resource sector is giving PNG the opportunity to grow. It’s emerging as a nation by harnessing its natural assets.”Indeed, TKI itself has been a pivotal player in helping to facilitate this economic boom.A local company founded to respond to the labour needs of the local Ok Tedi Mine that can be found at the foot of Mt Fubilan in the country’s Western…
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Asia Outlook Issue 43 | APAC Outlook Magazine
Asia Outlook Issue 43, the B2B magazine for c-suite business leaders and executives across the APAC region.
