Laos, Vietnam, Thailand to jointly open road transport for trucks in June
BANGKOK, March 7 (TNA) -- Three neighbouring Southeast Asian countries will jointly open highway routes for truck transportation aimed at facilitating lower-cost freight transport beginning June 19, a senior Thai transport ministry official said Saturday.
Land Transport Department Director-General Chairat Sa-nguansue said Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, using the terms of the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) accord agreed in Vietnam last month, will open a route linking Thailand’s northeastern province of Mukdahan with Savannakhet city and the Dansavan border trade zone in Xepon district of the Lao PDR’s Savannakhet province, and continuing to Laobao in Vietnam.
Total distance from Mukdahan is about 500 kilometres and takes about 10.5 hours for travelling.
Under the agreement, about 400 trucks from each country will transport goods along this route, Mr. Chairat said.
In order to facilitate the transportation including customs procedures, health inspection and required guarantees, Thai officials will cooperate with both the Lao and Asian Development Bank (ADB) authorities in providing training on left- and right-hand driving as the three countries do not follow the same driving system, he said.
The special driver training sessions will be held in late April in Mukdahan and in Savannaket. (TNA
Will this be a toll road? Laos will only make money if Laos put a toll booth on them. Otherwise the people of Laos will watch these truck zoom pass them.
Laos is already a truck road in the north, especially Highway 3 through Bokeo & Luang Namtha. Trucks from China, & brothels with sao Lao in the towns along the road to cater to the drivers. Laos can't charge any toll cos other countries paid for the road construction.
Oh! I thought our Lao authorities have charged some money from the truck drivers.
If not, the becoming a landlink of Laos doesn't make sense at all. I wonder why our authorities are so stupid. Just to let other countries get benifit from us.
Probably later our Lao government would get loan from the bank again and again to do a road maintenaince for foreign trucks, like road No 9, only Thailand and Vietnam get benefit, probably.
Part of highway 3 was built by Thailand, the rest of it (the better quality part) by China. Same for Phongsaly, where there are paved roads (mostly near the Chinese border) it means the Chinese have built them to get to their logging sites & plantations. Other countries build roads to come in & take everything out. In the end Laos gets left with some roads but everything's gone.
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