[PHNOM PENH POST]
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port saw a 10 per cent year-on-year shipment
increase in the first 11 months of the year, according to data provided
by the Port’s general director.
The shipment of cargo across the
port during the time period reached 2.2 million tons, a 9.94 per cent
increase from 2 million tonnes the previous year. The number of TEUs
(twenty-foot equivalent units) rose 6 per cent from 202,000 in 2010 to
214,000, this year.
Lou Kimchhun, General Director of
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, said the expansion of the Cambodian
economy had caused an increase in the circulation of goods being shipped
through the port, particularly that of milled rice and other
agricultural products, clothes, electronic equipment and construction
material.
He said he anticipated a continued rise in activity
with the completion of a railway serving the port. “When we have a
railroad, transportation to the port will be faster and faster and
transportation service will be cheaper,” he said.
Kouch Pheng,
president of Advanced Glory Logistics (Cambodia) Co Ltd, a shipment
services company, said AGL’s overall shipments for the first 11 months
of the year increased about 20 per cent over the last year.
He said that most of the exports handled by his company consisted of clothes, while imports consisted mainly of electronics.
Kouch Pheng agreed that a new railway would affect port activity.
“The
Cambodian transportation services will be fast when the construction of
the railroad is completed, but it will affect some transportation
companies’ business,” he said.
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