Sihanoukville port construction in final phase
The government will spend a total of $85 million, funded by a Japanese government loan, for the third and final phase of the expansion of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, which will more than double the port’s import-export capacity by 2012, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. “It will allow big [cargo] ships to do direct navigation to our port. So then, we can compete in the global economy,” Mr Hun Sen said while speaking to port workers at an International Labor Day event held at the port…