Transport and shipping

Transport infrastructure and facilities

All Nippon Airways mulls direct flight to Kingdom

Cambodian officials and Japanese airline All Nippon Airways discussed on Friday the possibility of starting a direct flight between the Kingdom and Japan next year, in a bid to facilitate the increase in bilateral business and investment transactions, according to a State Secretariat of Civil ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/all-nippon-airways-mulls-direct-flight-kingdom

Capital’s airport soars to 3 million passenger mark

Phnom Penh International Airport set a new record for passenger traffic yesterday afternoon, breaking the 3 million mark in one year for the first time since it reopened after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, according to a press release from Cambodia Airports, the French-owned ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19099/capital---s-airport-soars-to-3-million-passenger-mark/

Backup M’kiri bridge ready after Monday collapse

Authorities in Mondolkiri province on Wednesday finished installing an emergency bridge over the O’Phly river near the site of the existing bridge, which was damaged by an overloaded truck on Monday night. ...

Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/backup-mkiri-bridge-ready-after-monday-collapse-103759/

China-backed AIIB to take concrete shape

One of China’s biggest ever foreign policy successes will take concrete shape on Monday when delegates from 57 countries sign an agreement on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing. ...

Brenda Goh and Koh Gui Qing
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12682/china-backed-aiib-to-take-concrete-shape/

Bridge buckles under ‘50 tonne’ brick truck

A steel bridge in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district snapped in half on Monday under the weight of a truck police said was carrying more than twice the weight the structure was rated for. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-buckles-under-50-tonne-brick-truck

Cambodia upgrades air safety

Cambodia has purchased new aviation software that will allow it to better manage flight operations in and out of airports. Cambodia Airports handled more than 5.7 million passengers and 64,000 flights movements in 2014, an increase of 13% and 10% respectively compared to 2013. ...

TTR Weekly News Staff
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/12/cambodia-upgrades-air-safety/

Cambodia, Thailand push ahead with railway line

Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to push ahead with completion of a railway line from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, with the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to the neighbouring country last week. ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-thailand-push-ahead-railway-line

Thailand, China launch railway project

Thailand and China launched a railway project here Saturday, marking the beginning of bilateral cooperation to develop Thailand’s first standard-gauge double-track railway line. ...

Xinhua News Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18868/thailand--china-launch-railway-project/

Monitoring of airport carbon footprints begins

As airline passenger numbers in the country rocket, Cambodia has taken its first step toward greener air travel by earning the initial level of accreditation from a body that monitors the carbon footprint of airports. ...

Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monitoring-airport-carbon-footprints-begins

Toll expressway route unveiled

The Kingdom has settled on a route for a planned $2.5 billion high-speed toll road from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border in Bavet, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency revealed in a seminar yesterday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-expressway-route-unveiled

Delay on delivery of planes to Sky Angkor

Sky Angkor Airlines said yesterday that a plan to lease two Sukhoi SuperJet 100 aircraft from a Russian airline has been postponed, as the company has to sort out regulatory issues such as which aviation authority would be responsible in the event of a mishap. ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/delay-delivery-planes-sky-angkor

Cambodia Airports to incentivise Sihanoukville tourism

In a bid to increase tourist arrivals and promote Sihanoukville as a beach destination, Cambodia Airports, the private company that manages the Kingdom’s three international airports, announced yesterday that it will provide monetary incentives to airlines that bring in foreign visitors to the coastal city.Speaking ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-airports-incentivise-sihanoukville-tourism

Chinese carrier launches direct flight to Cambodia's Sihanoukville

Lucky Air has launched direct flights from Kunming to Sihanoukville, becoming the first Chinese carrier to offer year-round regular scheduled service to the coastal Cambodian city, a local English newspaper reported on Thursday, citing an airline executive. ...

Xinhua News Staff
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-12/03/content_22618731.htm

Chinese carrier launches direct flight to Sihanoukville

Lucky Air has launched direct flights from Kunming to Sihanoukville, becoming the first Chinese carrier to offer year-round regular scheduled service to the coastal Cambodian city, an airline executive said yesterday.Kunming-based Lucky Air, part of Hainan Airlines Group, has a fleet of 25 aircraft. It ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-carrier-launches-direct-flight-sihanoukville

Deal puts direct flight to Russia on radar

Cambodia and Russia yesterday signed an air transport services agreement that will facilitate direct flights between the countries, according to Russian state news agency TASS.At a signing ceremony in the Peace Palace, representatives from both countries signed the agreement in the presence of Prime Minister ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-puts-direct-flight-russia-radar

Toll road company has family ties to CPP senator

The multimillion-dollar project to revamp Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng toll road for profit is being carried out by a company controlled by the brother-in-law of ruling Cambodian People’s Party Senator Lao Meng Khin.Choeung Thean Seng, who is reputed to be an officer in the paramilitary ...

Daniel Pye and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-road-company-has-family-ties-cpp-senator

Korean firm plans JV expressway to Sihanoukville

Cambodia’s Global CAM Project Development Plc on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea’s Green Eco Energy Co. Ltd. to build a high-speed expressway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, executives from the two firms said. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18056/korean-firm-plans-jv-expressway-to-sihanoukville/

Veng Sreng tolls to go into effect on Dec 1

A $10.5 million toll road along Veng Sreng Boulevard will start charging drivers as of December 1, according to a Wednesday announcement by the Phnom Penh Municipality.The toll road, built by private contractor Phnom Penh Tollway, will aim to reduce congestion in one of the ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/veng-sreng-tolls-go-effect-dec-1

City hall seeks to expand bus routes

The Phnom Penh Municipality is asking for more city buses from the Chinese and Japanese governments to expand public transport to 10 routes in the capital, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said yesterday. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17511/city-hall-seeks-to-expand-bus-routes/

Phnom Penh begins upgrading street signs

The Phnom Penh municipal government has started a two-month project to replace and add a few hundred street signs across the city with what officials say are superior models, starting with Norodom Boulevard and going as far south as the Ministry of Interior. ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-begins-upgrading-street-signs-99254/

National carrier adds route to Laos, Hanoi

National flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) yesterday launched a new route to Laos and Vietnam, aiming to tap the rising numbers of nationals from the two countries visiting the Kingdom as well as the foreign tourists visiting neighboring countries. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17143/national-carrier-adds-route-to-laos--hanoi/

Angkor Air spreads wings to Hanoi, Vientiane

National carrier Cambodia Angkor Air inaugurated a new daily flight from Phnom Penh to Vientiane and Hanoi yesterday as part of an expansion plan aimed at broadening its international services and revenue base.Tekreth Samrach, chairman of Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) and secretary of state for ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-air-spreads-wings-hanoi-vientiane

Road safety efforts ‘insufficient’

A new study warns that a UN initiative to cut global road deaths in half by 2020 is on course to fail amid “clearly insufficient” efforts, with middle- and lower-income countries such as Cambodia at the forefront of the battle. ...

Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-safety-efforts-insufficient

In bid to increase helmet use, campaign focuses on fines

With a new traffic law set to come into force next year, officials and NGOs Thursday announced an aggressive campaign to tell people that failing to wear a helmet while riding a motorbike will threaten their lives and their wallets. ...

Meghan Tribe and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-bid-to-increase-helmet-use-campaign-focuses-on-fines-98073/

Contact us

Contact us

Do you have questions on the content published by Open Development Cambodia (ODC)? We will gladly help you.

Have you found a technical problem or issue on the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website?

Tell us how we're doing.

Do you have resources that could help expand the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website? We will review any map data, laws, articles, and documents that we do not yet have and see if we can implement them into our site. Please make sure the resources are in the public domain or fall under a Creative Commons license.

File was deleted
ERROR!

Disclaimer: Open Development Cambodia (ODC) will thoroughly review all submitted resources for integrity and relevancy before the resources are hosted. All hosted resources will be in the public domain, or licensed under Creative Commons. We thank you for your support.

uTwac
* The idea box couldn't be blank! Something's gone wrong, Please Resubmit the form! Please add the code correctly​ first.

Thank you for taking the time to get in contact!