Transport and shipping

UAE-based Emirates Airlines inaugurated a daily passenger flight on Saturday connecting Phnom Penh to Dubai, with a stopover in Yangon, Myanmar. ...

Malindo Air, a Malaysian low-cost carrier, will launch daily flights from Kuala Lumpur to Phnom Penh beginning on August 1, the airline announced on its website yesterday. ...

Nearly 200 villagers from three communes in Stung Treng province protested yesterday at Sre Pok bridge to demand that authorities stop dismantling it when the Sesan dam sluice gate closes next month. ...

The train service between Cambodia and Thailand, which was expected to begin operations early this year, seems to be delayed indefinitely due to a contentious one-kilometer stretch of track in Poipet City. ...

The international airport to be built in Koh Kong province will kick off construction in January next year, according to a spokesman from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA).​ ...

A planned temporary bridge north of the Cambodia-Japan-Friendship Bridge will be replaced by a large and permanent cable-stayed bridge once renovation of the latter bridge is complete, a City Hall spokesman said yesterday. ...

A commuter rail service that runs from Phnom Penh’s central district to beyond its airport has slowly gained traction since it launched three months ago, raising the possibility that it could be expanded to connect the capital’s biggest industrial park. ...

International Civil Aviation Organisation experts have wrapped up a five-day review of Cambodia’s airports after an audit last year recommended areas for improvement.​ ...

A bridge being constructed over the Mekong River will connect the provinces of Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmum once completed.Nou Vannak, director of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport’s technical department, told Post Property that construction works had recently started, however no official announcement ...

A bridge being constructed over the Mekong River will connect the provinces of Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmum once completed. ...

Phnom Penh City Hall has said it will hold a public forum within two weeks on plans to develop a road on a disused stretch of railway in Russey Keo district. Locals from six communities have been protesting the development plans for the past few months ...

Cambodia and Thailand are keen to be better connected by cross-border highways to boost bilateral economic growth, said an official in the Thai Embassy yesterday. ...

Villagers in Mondulkiri province have pleaded with local authorities to intervene after a company behind a nearby rubber plantation began charging them 20,000 riel ($5) to use a local road. Security guards at the Tong Min Group property told villagers from Pech Chreada district’s Pou ...

Cambodia-based JC International Airlines plans to expand direct flights to Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to tap into the growth of tourists between the neighboring nations after the airline’s launch just two months ago. ...

Royal Group, led by prominent businessmen Kith Meng, signed the agreement with China-based Railway 17th Bureau Group and​​ Sino Great Wall International Engineering​​ at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. ...

At the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on May 5, during an official visit between Cambodian Minister Hor Namhong and Japanese Minister Keiichi Ishii, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and the Tourism Minister in charge of the Water Cycle Policy of Japan, an agreement ...

Asia’s largest budget airline AirAsia, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, plans to open a subsidiary company in Cambodia to handle an anticipated increase in the number of passengers travelling to Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville from Malaysia. ...

Local logistics firm Kerry Worldbridge officially launched its customs bonded warehouse yesterday, allowing firms to import and store materials in the facility without paying duties and taxes provided the final product is re-exported. ...

Provincial tourism department director Soy Sinol said a construction study of the Asian Development Bank-funded project had been completed.The $18-million tourism seaport is due to come into service by 2019.​   ...

Nearly 100 residents living along a stretch of land running from a railway in Boeung Kak to National Road 5 have gathered again outside City Hall to demand information about the development of a new road threatening to destroy their homes. ...

Phnom Penh is to get five new bus routes when China donates 100 buses within two months, according to City Hall.​​ ...

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) is to build a $200 million container terminal as part of an expansion project due to be completed by 2022. ...

Cambodia and China reiterated their commitment to speed up the construction of the Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville super highway and the building of a new airport in Siem Reap, according to the government’s Press and Quick Reaction Unit yesterday. ...

Cambodia and Vietnam are pushing forward with plan to develop an expressway between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation. ...