November 19, 2011

Cambodia to start feasibility study on railway links in Kampong Thom, Kratie and Stung Treng provinces

[AKP]

Cambodia will start a feasibility study on 700-kilometer missing rail link soon following a Memorandum of Understanding signed on Oct. 10 by Cambodia’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport and a company of Chinese Railway Ministry.

The two railways will be constructed with a Chinese fund. The one links from Kampong Thom province to Stung Treng province, running through Preah Vihear province, and the other links from Snuol district of Cambodia-Vietnam bordering province of Kratie to Cambodia-Laos bordering area, running through Stung Treng provincial town.

A mechanism for constructing the two rail links was set out in a meeting held in Phnom Penh on Nov. 16 between Cambodia’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport, and Nanning Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China Railway Siyuan Group.

Zhang Beiruil, director of Nanning Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China Railway Siyuan Group said his company prepared a fund of US$5 million for carrying out the feasibility survey on building the two rail links.

The company has to conduct the study in conformity to ASEAN standard and modern techniques, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport H.E. Sokhom Pheakvoanmony said of technical works.

In the first phase, the study will be carried out on 270-kilometer rail link from Cambodia-Vietnam bordering province of Kratie to Cambodia-Laos border province of Stung Treng, as the project has economic potentials and the requirement for the construction is imposed in a priority, he said.

1 comment:

  1. Feasibility studies are preliminary investigations into the potential benefits associated with undertaking a specific activity or project. The main purpose of the feasibility study is to consider all factors associated with the project, and determine if the investment of time and other resources will yield a desirable result.

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