Bangkok's Bangchan Industrial Estate remains safe

BANGKOK, November 3 (TNA) - Vice Minister for Industry Suphap Kleekhajai said on Thursday that the Bangchan Industrial Estate in Bangkok's eastern side has remained safe from floods. Suphap told reporters that the water level at the Bangchan Industrial Estate has slightly increased, to some 70 centimetres from the mean sea level now, but has been lower than some 2.10-metre flood prevention dykes erected in the area and around each plant in the industrial site. The vice minister insisted that the Bangchan Industrial Estate, in which several food production plants are located, should be safe from floods unless there were overflows from the nearby Saen Saeb Canal. However, the manufacturer of Yam Yam, a well-known brand of locally-produced instant noodle, acknowledged that the firm has reduced its production capacity to 70-80 per cent, as some 20 per cent of its workers could not come to work at the so-called "food industrial site" due to the country's ongoing vast floods, which have also affected its production distribution centre in Lat Lum Kaew on the outskirts of the capital. Meanwhile, updated reports said that some inundations on Seree Thai Road, where Saha Union Public Company Limited, a leading Thai textile firm, is located near the Bangchan Industrial Estate have already receded. (TNA)