PHNOM PENH, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- One Cambodian company is putting the pedal to the metal after having received the approval from Prime Minister Hun Sen to begin construction on the country's first automobile assembly plant, national media reported Friday.
The 60 million U.S. dollars factory will assemble cars for the South Korean automobile maker Hyundai, which will supply vehicle parts, Lim Visal, assembly plant coordinator for Camco Motor Company was quoted by the Cambodia Daily newspaper as saying.
"The assembly factory will be constructed on 16.5 hectares of land in the Special Economic Zone in Koh Kong province and a car showroom will be opened in Phnom Penh," Lim Visal said, adding that the target date for the start of production is the middle of 2010.
Lim Visal said 500 workers will be hired for the construction of the plant, 1,000 after the construction is complete and possibly a total of 3,000 in the next 10 years.
"The company plans to hire locally to man the plant and some of those hired will be sent to South Korea to train," he said.
The 60 million U.S. dollars factory will assemble cars for the South Korean automobile maker Hyundai, which will supply vehicle parts, Lim Visal, assembly plant coordinator for Camco Motor Company was quoted by the Cambodia Daily newspaper as saying.
"The assembly factory will be constructed on 16.5 hectares of land in the Special Economic Zone in Koh Kong province and a car showroom will be opened in Phnom Penh," Lim Visal said, adding that the target date for the start of production is the middle of 2010.
Lim Visal said 500 workers will be hired for the construction of the plant, 1,000 after the construction is complete and possibly a total of 3,000 in the next 10 years.
"The company plans to hire locally to man the plant and some of those hired will be sent to South Korea to train," he said.
8 comments:
Thank you to PM Hun Sen for leading Cambodia into the industrial age. This should mark the birth of the needed middle class in Cambodia.
There we go, at least those newly graduated can do the job.
Now we can put our qualify graduates to jump start the experience. I hope like previously before when China involved with the KR's regime they only put their engineers and Chinese to work.
I hope they employ Khmer's graduate as well so we can learn.
Khmer Eternity,
Just don't end up like Canko city!!!!
Hey, what happens to the sarcastic remark by KI people that you normally see at the beginning of each stolen aticle?
Very interesting that Cambodia is moving toward the right direction.
I am happy to see HUN SEN doing something.
Khmer Eternity,
may god continue to bless cambodia and all our khmer people in many more way.
yes, good idea to hire and train the local people so they too, can be productive society of cambodia and the world as well. thank you for giving and making opportunity available for all khmer people. don't give up, patience is the key in the name of humanity. and thanks for understand that everybody has gotten to start somewhere, somehow as nobody was bornt with skills attach to their embilical cord. god bless cambodia.
Wow its good news that cambodia is going to start first automobile plant. it is one of good automobile industry news.Thanks for sharing.
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