Thailand set to build Pak Bara port, can't wait for Burma's Dawei decision
2012 04 30
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THAILAND is moving on with developing its ports and supply chain as it positions itself as the hub of Upper ASEAN economies, a senior Thai official told the UK's Port Strategy journal.
The plan is to create a major Thai port on the Andaman coast at Pak Bara instead of waiting for Burma's decision to go ahead with the apparently moribund US$50 million Dawei port project, once billed as the "new global gateway of Indo-China" that would transform 250 square kilometres of scrubland in southern Burma into southeast Asia's largest industrial complex.
Said Thai Deputy Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt: "We can give the concession now. We will go ahead."
The Thai plan calls for creating a combined annual terminal capacity of 70,000 dead weight tons as well as 825,000 TEU, increasing to 2.4 million TEU in 20 years.
The plan also calls for Pak Bara to be connected by rail from the outset just as the Thailand's major Port of Laem Chabang on its eastern coast is with its railways now being double tracked.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
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