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Thailand is pushing for new border trade routes with Myanmar
BANGKOK, May 15 (TNA) - Thai Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot said the Thai Commerce Ministry was pushing for new border trade routes with Myanmar to boost Thailand’s competitiveness in the tourism, fishery and logistics sectors.
Mr Alongkorn said the top priority now was to open the Singkhon border checkpoint that would connect the Andaman Sea with the Gulf of Thailand via the Myanmar’s town of Mergui to Thailand’s Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and the Ranong port. The project will boost two-country trade. It results from a meeting with Brig-General Aung Tun, former deputy commerce minister of Myanmar, in the 5th Joint Trade Committee or JTC meeting between Thailand and Myanmar in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province last month.
The Deputy Commerce Minister said that he would also lead a group of Thai delegations to the Singkhon border checkpoint in the near future to explore the readiness to upgrade the area into a permanent border pass.
Furthermore, Mr Alongkorn said a construction of deep-sea port by a Thai construction firm in the Myanmar’s city of Dawei was due to be completed in 2013. He said when complete, the Dawei deep-sea ports could serve 300,000-ton ships and would become a major trading hub connecting Southeast Asia’s markets with Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia via the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea. (TNA)
Mr Alongkorn said the top priority now was to open the Singkhon border checkpoint that would connect the Andaman Sea with the Gulf of Thailand via the Myanmar’s town of Mergui to Thailand’s Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and the Ranong port. The project will boost two-country trade. It results from a meeting with Brig-General Aung Tun, former deputy commerce minister of Myanmar, in the 5th Joint Trade Committee or JTC meeting between Thailand and Myanmar in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province last month.
The Deputy Commerce Minister said that he would also lead a group of Thai delegations to the Singkhon border checkpoint in the near future to explore the readiness to upgrade the area into a permanent border pass.
Furthermore, Mr Alongkorn said a construction of deep-sea port by a Thai construction firm in the Myanmar’s city of Dawei was due to be completed in 2013. He said when complete, the Dawei deep-sea ports could serve 300,000-ton ships and would become a major trading hub connecting Southeast Asia’s markets with Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia via the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea. (TNA)
