Transport and shipping

Transport infrastructure and facilities

Kampot to get new port

Construction of a seaport in Kampot is set to begin this year two years after being approved thanks to an $18 million loan from the Asia Development Bank (ADB), according to officials. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21768/kampot-to-get-new-port/

New border link expected to boost trade with Thailand

Cambodia and Thailand are set to have a new international border crossing on National Road 5, linking Banteay Meanchey province and Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21667/new-border-link-expected-to-boost-trade-with-thailand/

Kingdom’s airlines adjusting course due to slower tourism

Tighter competition and a slowdown in international tourism growth has prompted airlines registered in Cambodia to scale back their fleet expansion plans and shift focus to serving the more promising Chinese tourist market, new research shows. ...

Cam McGrath and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-airlines-adjusting-course-due-slower-tourism

Major route linking Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia to be broadened

The Vietnamese government has given the go-ahead to a project to enlarge a major route playing an important part in the transport of goods from provinces and cities in southern Vietnam to Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries, local newswire VnExpress reported Monday. ...

Tuoi Tre Team
http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/33224/major-route-linking-ho-chi-minh-city-to-cambodia-to-be-broadened

S’ville gov’t enforcing safety regulations in wake of ferry disaster

After a boat capsized and sank off Sihanoukville last week, ferry company managers say local police have begun strictly enforcing safety regulations and rough weather warnings, in a dramatic shift from the city’s relaxed attitude toward boat safety. ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21426/s---ville-gov---t-enforcing-safety-regulations-in-wake-of-ferry-disaster/

Satellite navigation system ready for take-off

Cambodian airports are preparing to install a satellite-guided performance-based navigation (PBN) system that will save carriers time and fuel, and reduce air pollution, according to the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21362/satellite-navigation-system-ready-for-take-off/

China, Thailand drive annual growth at airports

Passengers from China and Thailand are driving double-digit annual growth in Cambodia’s airport traffic, according to a report released on Thursday by the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-thailand-drive-annual-growth-at-airports-108285/

Cambodia aims higher in manufacturing sector

After decades of solid growth driven by its garment industry, Cambodia is seeking to shift its economy into more sophisticated light manufacturing, such as electronics and auto-parts. Most of these manufacturers are Japanese and they are slowly coming online in Cambodia’s special economic zones, aiming ...

Daniel De Carteret, Chan Muyhong
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-aims-higher-in-manufacturing-sector/3184557.html

SR airport lounge to be ready by next month

Plaza Premium Group, the Hong Kong-based company that opened its first lounge in Cambodia at Phnom Penh International Airport last month, will open its second lounge in Siem Reap airport by the end of next month, according to the firm that manages the Kingdom’s three ...

Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sr-airport-lounge-be-ready-next-month

Railway residents told to stay calm over expressway

Uncertain residents who have protested the lack of information surrounding a planned elevated toll road linking central Phnom Penh and the airport were yesterday urged to remain calm as authorities work out a “solution” for those affected. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-residents-told-stay-calm-over-expressway

Land row meet yields no answers, new meeting

A group of Boeung Chhouk village residents being asked to vacate to make room for a new road met yesterday with a senior Council of Ministers official in a bid to resolve the long-running dispute. However, they walked away with nothing but the possibility of ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-row-meet-yields-no-answers-new-meeting

Chroy Changvar road row pushes into day 2

A protest against city hall’s decision to clear residents’ land for a new road on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula without paying compensation yesterday entered its second day. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-road-row-pushes-day-2

Air freight volume bucks global slowdown

Cambodia was one of the few bright spots for the air cargo industry last year with a modest increase in year-on-year air freight shipments as other regions experienced weak growth due to the cooling global economy. ...

Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/air-freight-volume-bucks-global-slowdown Khek Norinda

Residents protest satellite city road construction

Roughly ten residents from the Kien Kleang community set fire to tires in protest of a City Hall development near National Road 6A, along which the majority of the community lives, after bulldozers began felling their fences and clearing their land.  ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20543/residents-protest-satellite-city-road-construction/

Firms urged to take rail route

Prime Minister Hun Sen urged logistics companies transporting heavy goods to switch from container truck shipping to rail shipments, increasing cost efficiency while sparing the nation’s roads from load damage. ...

Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-urged-take-rail-route

Residents protest road planned near OCIC development site

About 50 Phnom Penh residents gathered On Sunday to rally against a planned road on Chroy Changva peninsula that will run alongside a massive $3 billion development project. The 12-meter-wide road will be located just 100 meters behind National Road 6A. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/residents-protest-road-planned-near-ocic-development-site-106262/

Japan’s top airline to add Phnom Penh route in September

All Nippon Airways (ANA) – Japan’s largest carrier – will begin flying between Tokyo and Phnom Penh on September 1, the spokesman for the Secretariat of State of Civil Aviation told Khmer Times yesterday, adding that the first direct flight from Japan to Cambodia will ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20134//

Gov’t to shutter tolls on national road 4: PM

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday that the government would cancel its contract with the AZ Group of Companies, which has collected tolls along National Road 4 since 2002. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/105338-105338/

Railway denies report of new passenger train service

Royal Railway on Sunday refuted a state media report that commercial passenger train service between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville was imminent. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/author/zsombor-peter/

Thailand-Cambodia rail link complete by December

Construction of a restored rail link with Cambodia to improve transport in the Mekong sub-region will be completed by the end of 2016, Khmer officials say. The railway connection between Aranyaprathet and Sisophon stopped in the 1970s due to internal conflicts in Cambodia. ...

Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/815452/thailand-cambodia-rail-link-complete-by-december

Poipet railway to be finished in 2016

A railway linking Phnom Penh with Poipet town on the Thai-Cambodian border is due to be completed by the end of 2016, local authorities announced following a visit by the minister of tourism yesterday. ...

Morn Vanntey
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-railway-be-finished-2016

AirAsia emergency landing blamed on ‘bird strike’

Aviation officials say a “bird strike” forced an AirAsia jet that took off from Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday morning at 8:35 am to return for an emergency landing. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19226/airasia-emergency-landing-blamed-on----bird-strike---/

Government to take over Veng Sreng, stop collecting tolls

Less than a month after Phnom Penh Tollway began collecting money from commuters using the factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard in outer Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday that the government would buy out the private firm and, as a New Year’s gift ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-take-over-veng-sreng-stop-collecting-tolls-104074/

Road project ‘mishandled’

A seven-year, multimillion-dollar road rehabilitation project was rated “less than successful” in a report last week by the Asian Development Bank’s Independent Evaluation Department. ...

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-project-mishandled

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