Monday, May 05, 2008

Sihanoukville: Hun Sen wants the port to be more competitive

02 May 2008
By Ky Soklim
Cambodge Soir

Translated from French by Luc Sâr

Prime minister Hun Sen wants a more competitive seaport. On Thursday 01 May, during his visit to Sihanoukville, Hun Sen wished to see the harbor increases its capacity. Hun Sen came to inaugurate a new single booth (system) which is supposed to simplify the administrative steps for the port.

According to Hun Sen, Cambodia can no longer compete with neighboring countries, including Vietnam and Thailand, which own deep sea port. “In our development plan, we must think about dredging the harbor deeper,” he proposed.

Currently, the Sihanoukville port is only 10-meter deep, whereas this depth is between 15 to 18-meter in Vietnam, and it can only accept ships with a maximum capacity of 20,000-tons. “We must make it such that we are able to accept ships with a capacity of 100,000 to 150,000-ton,” Hun Sen said.

“We must not satisfy ourselves to work at the local level only. We must be more competitive at the regional level,” Hun Sen said, while indicating that Vietnam plans to build a new deep sea port in Vung Tao.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, and that will produced hundreds of jobs immediately and hundreds of thousands jobs after we get new businesses from the works.

Vote CPP for continue to move forward beyond the 21st century.

Vote SRP for continue to move backward to year-zero

Anonymous said...

cambodia do not want o move backward like the KR era. keep moving forward like the rest of the world. narrow-mindedness is suck, to say the least. forget, the stone age economy or society style when the world uses airplanes, cars, trains, ships and other machineries. only a pessimist or cynics or stupid, crazy person would want stone age economy. people in their right mind do not want to be like the stupid, idiot KR society again. look what they've done to cambodia already? haven't we suffered enough already under their stupid rules? we got to be smarter than that! we don't need the blind leading the blind or the stupid, cazy leading the stupid crazy! thank you.

Anonymous said...

it is good for any leader of cambodia to think like this. god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Agreed!