Transport and shipping

The listed-Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) launched its new container terminal on Monday, upgrading its full capacity in handling containers to 400,000 TEUs per year. ...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), a river-port operator listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), on September 20 inaugurated the Step 3, Phase I development of its LM17 Container Terminal to meet growing container throughput. ...

The listed company Sihanoukville Autonomous port has rescheduled its construction plans for the deep water port terminal to mid-2022, with construction set to take three years. ...

A mother and son contesting the development of Phnom Penh’s new international airport in Kandal province were detained on Wednesday for taking photos of their rice field being cleared by the developer, but were released after agreeing to stop protesting. ...

The top logistics industry body has struck a deal with a digital technology association that is tailored to better position the freight sector to drive growth and slash delivery times and operating costs, according to the former’s chief. ...

The Phnom Penh Public Works and Transport Department says that the flooding under the Choam Chao flyover will not happen again when the bridge is completed. ...

The Kep Provincial Administration is set to break ground on the long-awaited $1.95 million Ses Sar quay, or “White Horse Port”, on September 15 in the northwestern reaches of the coastal province, in a bid to prop up the local transportation and tourism sectors. ...

The National Road 48 reconstruction and improvement project, which connects the coastal provinces of Preah Sihanouk and Koh Kong, will break ground at the beginning of November with a budget of more than $78 million under concessional financing from South Korea. ...

Senior Minister Sun Chanthol, Minister of Public Works and Transport,  yesterday presided over the signing ceremony of a contract for the construction and upgrading of National Road 48 under concessional financing from the Republic of Korea. ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is drafting a railway development strategy to revamp  train transport economically and make it more efficient. ...

The Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway construction project has been now 65 percent complete. ...

Authorities in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district have started rehabilitation work on the main canal next to the railway line in Kakab I commune’s Paprak Khang Cheung village after about 20 families agreed to demolish and clear structures blocking the canal. ...

The construction project of 38 streets in Siem Reap provincial city has been now 70 percent complete, pointed out Senior Minister Sun Chanthol in a meeting of Infrastructure and Regional Integration Technical Working Group (IRITWG). ...

The Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway construction project has been now 65 percent complete. ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport said three national roads that have been constructed with Double Bituminous Surface Treatment (DBST) will be be upgraded with asphalt concrete (AC). ...

The construction of the Chaom Chao overpass and underpass in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district, just east of Phnom Penh International Airport, has been 80 per cent complete and is expected to be ready as planned by next March. ...

The government is preparing a master plan to develop intelligent transport systems (ITS) to properly consolidate and invigorate the technological development and capabilities in the industry, in the expectation of a soft launch in 2023. ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology – through South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport – has granted funds for the construction of a laboratory project at the Techo Sen Institute of Public Works and Transport for the development of road ...

Kep Provincial Administration announced Friday that the Koh Tonsay Tourist Port, which costs around $1.2 million, is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. ...

The locally-listed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) on August 9 posted a recovery in business performance over the first seven months of this year as the Kingdom leverages its relatively brisk coronavirus vaccine rollout to ease out of the Covid stranglehold. ...

Siem Reap International Airport on Sunday served an Airbus-330 flying from Basel –Switzerland for a rest-stop and the aircraft headed to Hong Kong later on the same day. ...

The Ministry of Public Works has unveiled a project to expand the entire National Road 6 from the current two lanes to four lanes to facilitate travel of people and transportation of goods. ...

Plans to build new international airports have been put on hold as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to keep tourists and business travelers from visiting the Kingdom.​ ...

Air passengers handled through the three international airports in Cambodia dropped by 92 percent to 136,680 in the first semester of this year. ...