Following a very poor year for known ferry fatalities in 2021, last year, 2022, saw a big improvement with the known death toll almost halved from 1,378 to 699. However, ..
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Police in Cambodia have arrested three people for their reported involvement in a ferry sinking incident that claimed 15 lives in the Mekong River in the south-eastern pa ..
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Search and rescue/recovery teams have located the bodies of six additional victims of a deadly river ferry sinking incident that occurred in the Mekong River in south-eas ..
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Authorities in Cambodia have confirmed that eight people were killed and an undetermined number have gone missing after a passenger ferry sank in the south-eastern provin ..
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Geography influences the strategic choices of all countries, but Vietnam is an interesting case of a “swing” state in comparative grand-strategy terms. The co ..
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A recent study published by the US Army War College looks at how geography constrained the Soviet military presence in the Indian Ocean and the lessons that can be drawn ..
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The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) in south-western Cambodia is set to undergo improvement works with the aim of expanding its container handling capacity. The works ..
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Cambodia, where exports are flourishing post-covid, has a new fast way to get its goods to the US. Swire Shipping and NVOOC UWL have linked a new dedicated barge service from Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, to their express ocean transportation service between Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and Seattle that...
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Construction is underway at what will become Cambodia’s third main port. A total of $1.5bn has been earmarked for a deepsea port project in Kampot province in the southwest of the Southeast Asian nation, edging onto the Gulf of Thailand. The multipurpose port will boast a depth alongside of 15 m...
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Cambodia has started the construction of a seaport in its Kampot province with an investment of US$1.5 billion from the private sector.
The multipurpose port will help complement the port of Sihanoukville, another major port in that region.
With the completion of the first phase of the project by 2025, the port will have a capacity of 300,000 TEU with an investment of nearly US$200 million. The capacity will go up to 600,000 TEU by 2030 when the total construction is completed.
The port will have...
https://container-news.com/cambodia-commences-construction-of-us1-5-billion-worth-seaport/