More border gates to open [from Vietnam] to Cambodia

Mon, Jan 03, 2011
Viet Nam News/Asia News Network

CAN THO - Viet Nam and Cambodia have agreed to open four more border gates for road transport between the two countries in 2011.

The new border gates that will open next year are: Xa Mat -Trapeing (Tay Ninh and Kampong Cham provinces); Le Thanh - Oyadav (Gia Lai and Andong Pich - Ratanakiri provinces); Hoa Lu - Trapeang Sre (Binh Phuoc and Snoul-Kratie provinces); and Bu Prang - O Raaing (Dak Nong and Mundulkiri provinces).

The new border gates will bring the number of entry points for road transport between Cambodia and Viet Nam from three to seven, according to figures released at a meeting to review the implementation of the agreement on Road Transport between the two countries held in the Mekong city of Can Tho on Monday.

The three border gates currently under operation for road transport between the two countries are: Moc Bai - Bavet (Tay Ninh and Svay Rieng provinces); Tinh Bien-Phnom Den (An Giang and Takeo provinces); and Xa Xia - Prek Chak (Kien Giang, Lork and Kam Pot provinces).

In 2010, Vietnamese and Cambodian authorities granted 205 licenses to 32 transportation companies, mainly dealing in passenger transport, for cross-border services between the two countries.

These companies, mainly running services from HCM City, Tra Vinh, An Giang and Can Tho to Cambodia, operate 185 coaches for passengers and 20 trucks for cargo transport.

Vietnamese experts said at the meeting that there is much greater potential for cargo transportation between the two countries. They said high customs fees and goods transport taxes in Cambodia were to blame for the limited growth so far.

The bilateral agreement on Road Transport was signed by the governments of Cambodia and Viet Nam in 1998.

Vietnam, Cambodia to open three more border gates

12/28/2010
VOV News/VNA (Hanoi)

Vietnam and Cambodia will open the last three border gates of the seven international ones at the beginning of next year under an agreement on road transportation between the two countries.

At an annual conference between the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam and the Cambodian General Department of Transport on December 27 in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, the two sides agreed to open the border gates of Le Thanh (Gia Lai) – Oyadav (Andong Pich-Rattanakiri), Hoa Lu (Binh Phuoc) – Trapeang Sre (Snoul-Kratie) and Bu Prang (Dak Nong)- O Raing (Mundulkiri).

Over the years, the two countries have effectively carried out the agreement to ensure the flow of traffic through the border gates between Tay Ninh province of Vietnam and Svay Rieng province of Cambodia. They have recently opened three border gates linking Tay Ninh and Kampong Cham, An Giang and Takeo, and Kien Giang and Lork-Kam Pot.

Leaders from the two ministries of transport also signed an agreement to double the number of vehicles through border gates to boost bilateral trade with the aim of raising two-way trade by 40 percent to US$2billion in the near future.

Three border gates between Vietnam and Cambodia opened to traffic

09/26/2009
VOV News

Vietnam and Cambodia will open three border gates including Vietnam’s Xamat, Tay Ninh to Cambodia’s Trapeang Phlong; Tinh Bien, An Giang to Takeo and Ha Tien, Kien Giang to Lork Kam Pot in late September and early October.

Under the agreement on land transport signed between the two countries in 2005, another border gate in MocBai, Tay Ninh was opened in 2006.

Khieu Sopheak: Cambodia wants to open 2 more gates to VN

Gia Lai Province’s Le Thanh border gate, which was inaugurated in December last year, faces Cambodia’s Ratanakiri Province. Cambodia’s Ministry of the Interior wants to open two more border gates with Viet Nam. — VNA/VNS Photo Sy Huynh

Cambodia wants more border gates

18-03-2008
VNS (Hanoi)

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s Ministry of the Interior wants to open two more border gates to Viet Nam, the ministry’s spokesman Khieu Sopheak recently announced.

Opening more border gates should help attract investment, generate jobs, reduce the migration of job seekers into the cities, help eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty for border residents, according to Sopheak.

Sopheak said the ministry would propose that the Government open the border gates of Labakhe and Nam Lieu, both in Mondulkiri Province, which shares a border with Viet Nam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc.

The ministry said the new border gates should help turn the border area into major industrial zones, helping to raise incomes for local residents via investment and commodities export between the two countries, he said.

Cambodian localities sharing the land border with Viet Nam made remarkable efforts in managing border gates, contributing to security and facilitating travel for local residents, according to the spokesman.

The ministry also asked the Cambodian Government to upgrade the Prechak [KI-Media: Prek Chak] national border gate in Kampot Province and the Ozadao [KI-Media: O'Sdao] national border gate in Ratanakiri Province into international border gates and to also construct the Ton Lon national border gate in Kampot Province and look at opening other border gates.

Cambodia now has 64 border gates, with 60 border gates managed by cities and provinces, and four international gates.