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Ministry of Public Works and Transport
Ministry of Public Works discusses with a Chinese developer on capital city sky train
Cambodia’s Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport Minister H.E. Sun Chanthol has held a discussion with Chairman of China Sky Railway Group Mr. Tang Tong on Phnom Penh sky train, according to the ministry’s news release. ...
Khan Sophirom
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106480
New online vehicle registration proved successful
Thanks to the new online registration system, some 17,000 special number plates of vehicles have been serviced, generating 14,000 million Riel (roughly US$3.5 million) as national income. ...
Lim Nary
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106511
China funded 70 percent of Cambodian roads, bridges: Minister
About 70 percent of roads and bridges in Cambodia have been funded by China, with loans for their financing adding up to about $2 billion, government-affiliated Fresh News reported the transport minister as saying on Friday. ...
Sek Odom and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-funded-70-percent-cambodian-roads-bridges-minister-132786/
Phnom Penh set to open first airport railway link by April
A railway line that will transport passengers from the center of Phnom Penh to its airport is set to open in April, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol announced on Friday, adding that no evictions would be necessary to make way for the development. ...
Traffic accidents, fatalities increase
The number of traffic accidents and fatalities increased marginally during the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year, though the number of injuries dropped. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-accidents-fatalities-increase
Still no train in sight
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. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39753/still-no-train-in-sight/
Cambodia-Vietnam expressway
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. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37805/cambodia-vietnam-expressway/
Number of overloaded trucks fall after fines
The Ministry of Transport collected more than three hundred million riel ($75,000) last month in the form of fines on more than 140 overloaded trucks. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37286/number-of-overloaded-trucks-fall-after-fines/
Heavy trucks feel pinch
Transportation Ministry inspection stations last month seized 242 overloaded trucks, nearly 100 more than the month prior, and more than doubled the fines dished out to offending vehicle owners, according to a ministry report released on Tuesday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heavy-trucks-feel-pinch
Crackdown on unlicensed truck drivers
Truck drivers without licenses who take workers to factories will not be allowed to continue working starting next April in a bid to reduce traffic accidents, the government said on Monday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33459/crackdown-on-unlicensed-truck-drivers/
Agreement to increase cross-border vehicle limit
Cambodia and Thailand will sign a memorandum of understanding on Friday to increase the quota of buses and trucks permitted to cross the border between the two countries, a transport official said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agreement-increase-cross-border-vehicle-limit
Safety video for buyers of motorbikes
Buyers of motorcycles under 125cc will have to watch a 10-minute video on drunk driving and road safety from next year. The move is an attempt to cut traffic deaths, particularly among young people. Nearly half of road deaths involve people aged 15 to 30. Agreement on ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33118/safety-video-for-buyers--of-motorbikes/
Rail link to Thailand on schedule
Cambodia and Thailand will be linked by a railway by the end of 2016 as planned, according to senior official, but some sections of track from Phnom Penh to Banteay Meanchey province remain unrestored. Minister of Public Works and Transportation Sun Chanthol said this week that ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32895/rail-link-to-thailand-on-schedule/
Customs urged to move online
Customs authorities should work quickly to adopt an envisioned online registration system for cross-border cargo shipments that would expedite delivery and cut out pesky middlemen who tack on unofficial fees, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-urged-move-online
Government mulls using rivers for transport
Phnom Penh residents may soon be able to travel to select provinces via boat as the government has pledged to build a waterways public transit system to reduce traffic congestion in the city. Public Works and Transports Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday during the ministry’s annual ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33722/government-mulls-using-rivers-for-transport/
Transport ministry creates four departments
Public Works and Transport Minister Sun Chanthol announced the creation of four new departments within his ministry yesterday during a road renovation ceremony in Preah Sihanouk province. Transport Ministry spokesman Va Sim Sorya confirmed the changes to Khmer Times yesterday and said they were done to ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31536/transport-ministry-creates-four-departments/
Minister calls for higher standard for road work
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol yesterday ordered his officials to keep a close eye on a new $1.3 million project to widen National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province in order to halt criticism of shoddy road quality and corruption in his ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-calls-higher-standard-road-work
Mobile vehicle checkpoints start
The Ministry of Transport has started checking trucks traveling along National Road 6 to ensure they conform to legal size and modification requirements, it announced this week. According to a post on the ministry’s Facebook page, mobile inspection teams were deployed in Kampong Cham province to ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31384/mobile-vehicle-checkpoints-start/
China gives $2 billion for roads, bridge
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping last week resulted in loan agreements worth almost $2 billion for road infrastructure development in Cambodia, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said on Friday. According to Transport Minister Sun Chanthol, the money will be used to ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30849/china-gives--2-billion-for-roads--bridge/
Transport Ministry collects $500K in fines over 5 months
Some 500 overloaded trucks have been stopped and collectively fined more than $300,000 by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport in the past five months. According to a series of reports by the ministry, inspection stations across the country collected a total of $310,000 from ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/transport-ministry-collects-500k-fines-over-5-months
Mobile car inspection hits the road
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday inaugurated a mobile inspection kiosk that will provide automobile inspection services to all 13 provinces in the country that currently do not have an inspection station. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mobile-car-inspection-hits-road
Cambodian rails linked to Thailand’s
The long-awaited railroad between Phnom Penh and Bangkok moved one step closer to completion yesterday after tracks on the Cambodian side were connected to those in Thailand. The Poipet-Phnom Penh rail line was joined to the Bangkok-Sa Kaeo line during a ceremony at the international border ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-rails-linked-thailands
Unfinished Railway Connected to Thailand
Cambodia’s northern railway line has been linked to Thailand at the border in Poipet City, officials said at a ceremony on Monday—although sections of track in Cambodia still need to be finished before trains can start running between the two countries. At a ceremony marking a ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unfinished-railway-connected-thailand-118206/
Chinese outfit moots two new railway lines
Representatives from Jiangxi International (Cambodia) Ltd met with Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol on Monday and expressed interest in conducting feasibility studies for two new lines – one running from Banteay Meanchey’s Sisophon town to Siem Reap and one from Phnom Penh to Bavet in Svay ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-outfit-moots-two-new-railway-lines