Toll Royal to Restart Rail Services Next Month
Less than four months after suspending work on Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network, Toll Royal Railways (TRR), the network’s operator, has informed the government that it will recommence transporting construction materials needed to build the southern line on Aug. 1, company officials said yesterday. The decision to go back to work came after TRR, a joint venture between Australia’s Toll Holdings and Cambodia’s Royal Group, said it had suspended its work on March 31 for one year, telling the government that completion of the southern line to Sihanoukville was taking too long and that the project was no longer profitable. “We [will] commence operations and will restart in order to complete the [southern] track line since it is nearly finished,” Kith Meng, chairman of Royal Group, said yesterday, referring to an email sent by TRR to the government and dated June 22. …
