The Vietnam government is reportedly concerned about legal action from solar investors if its new power development plan does not prove ambitious enough. Vietnam’s latest draft energy plan prepares for 8.7 GW of new solar between 2021 and 2030, but the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade is reportedly fearful of legal action by solar…
After a renewables frenzy, Vietnam’s solar energy goes to waste in many provinces without enough transmission capacity. For up to 12 days every month, Tran Nhu Anh Kiet, a supermarket manager in Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan province, is forced to turn off his solar panels during the most lucrative peak sunshine hours. “I’m losing on average…
Sok Sithika / Khmer Times The $1.5 billion port is expected to be a major artery for Cambodia’s maritime transport. MPWT A large international deep-sea port in Kampot province has officially opened its construction site. The $1.5 billion Kampot port is expected to be a major artery for Cambodia’s maritime transport. The ground-breaking ceremony for…
Prime Minister Hun Sen, Head of the Royal Government has instructed the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to study the feasibility of improving the existing railway system in Cambodia into a high-speed railway. This is according to Sun Chanthol, Minister of Public Works and Transport, while leading a youth delegation of the Ministry of…
The CapitaLand Development (CLD), a real estate firm and development wing of CapitaLand Group, is investing $1.3b for the enhancement of its first industrial park, logistics park, as well as township development in Vietnam. The CLD and the People’s Committee of Bac Giang province signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the $1.3b investment deal….
The government has agreed in principle to a 1,400MW hydropower dam in Stung Treng province to be built jointly by local conglomerate Royal Group of Companies Ltd and China (Cambodia) Rich International Co Ltd. According to a letter from Royal Group of Companies chairman Kith Meng to Stung Treng provincial governor Svay Sam Eang obtained…
The largest temperature-controlled cold storage and cross-docking facility in Cambodia – which will be able to handle up to 25 per cent of the Kingdom’s total requirements – has broken ground in Kandal province. The Kandal Cold Storage project, which had its groundbreaking ceremony on March 22 in Kien Svay district, was funded by Private…
The Ascott Limited launched its first Citadines Flatiron Apart’hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on March 15. Citadines Flatiron Phnom Penh sits right in the middle of Phnom Penh City Centre, within Flatiron by Meridian, a 41-storey mixed-use integrated development, with Grade A office towers and retail components. The Apart’hotel welcomed its first resident and invited…
By Anh Minh February 27, 2022 | 04:22 pm GMT+7 A worker cleans solar power panels in Vietnam’s central Ninh Thuan Province in 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran The solar power capacity planned by Vietnam for 2031-2045 is “too high” should be cut to give space for wind power, the government says. In a communiqué…
Wang Wentian, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Cambodia, said that if the process goes smoothly as planned, the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway project could be completed in June 2022. He made the remarks at a handover ceremony of 231 cases of Covid-19 traditional Chinese medicine weighing 1,125 kilograms to Deputy…
PHNOM PENH, Jan 20 (Xinhua): Cambodia has inaugurated a US$1.2 million new tourist port in the seaside city of Kep, aiming at attracting more foreign tourists to the southwestern Kep province in the post-Covid-19 era, said a transport ministry’s news release. Speaking at the event, Cambodian Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said the port, built on…
The Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade will not add any more wind and solar power into this year’s 2022 plan, due to a lack of input facilities to transfer them to the national grid. At the 2021 review meeting of the National Load Dispatch Centre on January 10, its deputy director Nguyen Quoc Trung…
AEON Mall (Cambodia) Co Ltd’s first “multifunctional logistics business hub” is set to break ground early next month and start operations next year, in a special economic zone (SEZ) near Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), according to a port source with knowledge of the matter. The shopping mall developer and operator has leased a plot of…
Construction on Kampot International Tourism Port – a 4ha quay in Teuk Chhou district about 6km west of Kampot town – has fallen off track, reaching 90 per cent completion, according to a senior Ministry of Tourism official last week. The project is now planned to be finished by March 31, more than four months…
The Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen has confirmed that Cambodia will examine the possibility of developing existing railways into high-speed railways and expanding railway connections to other potential provinces to reduce traffic accidents and increase transportation capacity. The new railway, which is planned to be built is to connect the existing railway in Poipet…
A new floating eco-tourism port is in the pipeline for northern Sihanoukville province’s Trapaing Kea village, on the Prek Kampong Smach canal upstream from Veal Rinh Bay, according to provincial authorities. In expectation of a marked upswing in national and international tourists in the near future as Covid lets up, provincial officials have welcomed the…
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — Nearly 71 percent of the construction work on the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has been completed despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) said in a news release on Sunday. MPWT’s secretary of state Yit Bunna visited the construction site in southwestern Kampong…
From 2022, Cambodia will rollout the expansion of the sea port at Sihanoukville province to reduce sea transport cost and attract more foreign direct investments. The plan was shared recently with the media by Lou Kimchhun, Director General of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, adding that the sea port expansion will entail three main stages. According to…
PM Hun Sen said more than $320 million was spent on the construction of infrastructure in Sihanoukville province to improve Cambodia’s image and be the driver of economic growth for the nation. He made the remarks in a speech given at the inaugural ceremony for 37 newly completed roads and three wastewater treatment stations in…
Continent Assets Management Co., Ltd, PLMP Venture Capital Co., Ltd, PropNex Cambodia Co., Ltd and Ly Ly Kampong Seila Special Economic Zone Co., Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on November 17th 2021, to join strategic cooperation in designing new investment companies for fintech hub projects in Sihanoukville City under the honorable presences of Governor Kuoch…
The Cambodia government is working to transform Sihanoukville province, also known as Preah Sihanouk province, into a multi-purpose special economic zone (SEZ) after the province received the designation earlier this year. On June 9, 2021, Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a sub-decree that will make Sihanoukville province a multi-purpose SEZ. The designation stands to…
Hanoi (VNA) – Forty-two out of 106 wind power plans registering for commercial operation received Commercial Operation Date (COD) acceptance as of October 29, according to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). According to the EVN, the 42 plans have total capacity of over 2,131 MW. It said that the 106 wind power plants have a…
Cambodia will add 495MW of solar power capacity from seven projects by 2023, which will represent “20 per cent” of the total energy supply by then, as the world looks to harness the sun as a key source of renewable electric power in the fight against climate change, according to a senior energy official on…
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has awarded a master plan consultancy contract to a top Chinese institute for the development and transformation of Preah Sihanouk province into a “Model Multi-Purpose Special Economic Zone”, Southeast Asia’s next logistics and resort hub and innovation centre. The master plan will serve as a key roadmap to develop…
Kampot International Tourism Port – slated to be completed by end-2021 – will become an international maritime gateway, a vital component in the national transportation system, and an important magnet for national and international tourists, according to Minister of Tourism Thong Khon. The minister made the remark on September 29 during an inspection of the…
The real estate market of Sihanoukville province is beginning to show more positive signs after a subdued period, following a double whammy shock of an exodus of Chinese nationals in the wake of an online gambling ban, and then the Covid-19 crisis, observers have said. In a bid to develop the Kingdom’s largest coastal province…
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) — Visiting China State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Cambodia Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn agreed here on Sunday to further enhance bilateral cooperation between their two countries. During a meeting with Prak Sokhonn, Wang said that he and Sokhonn have met face to face…
According to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia, the construction of the Phnom Penh (PP)-Sihanoukville Expressway is progressing smoothly and to date, the project has achieved 63% in terms of overall completion. After the completion of the above expressway project, the journey from PP to Sihanoukville is estimated to take only 2…
The Cambodian government’s relentless push to improve the Kingdom’s logistics infrastructure got another boost this week with officials committing to build 11 new roads for Sihanoukville. Already, the province is set to benefit from the 190 kilometre-long, $2 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway due to be completed next year. Earlier in 2021, the government completed a…
Ream City development, is a new ‘city within a city that is rising from an 834-hectare plot of reclaimed land in Sihanoukville, Cambodia located along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. The $16 billion project led by the Cambodian property development company Canopy Sands, is one of the largest real estate investments in the…
Cambodia and China have agreed to boost transport development cooperation. The Kingdom has sought assistance from China in human resources development of infrastructure skills. The agreement was made during a virtual meeting held yesterday between the Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol and his Chinese counterpart Li Xiaopeng. Chanthol briefed…
Cambodian Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said the construction of the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has gone full steam ahead despite the Covid-19 pandemic. It is expected to be completed ahead of schedule. Invested in by China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC), the $2 billion expressway will connect the capital city of…
Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport Chanthol inspected the progress of the construction of National Road 146B and National Road 148, both of which are scheduled to be completed by August, 2022. The Senior Minister also inspected the automatic concrete mixer, which can be produce enough materials to build 500 meters per…
It is likely that Vietnam will have to reduce renewable energy sources in the next five years, as booming development in recent years was weighing on the power system, according to a recent report by the Institute of Energy. The report showed that Vietnam’s power system had a total power generation capacity of around 69…
The construction of the nearly $2 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway is 51% complete and is expected to be finished in 2023, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Vasim Sorya. Invested in by Cambodian PPSHV Expressway Co Ltd, the first expressway in Cambodia will boast a total length of 190.3km and…
Low power demand coupled with oversupply of electricity at times have forced authorities to cut the capacity of renewable energy plants in order to avoid overwhelming the national grid, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). A large amount of investments from social resources has been poured into developing renewable energy, particularly solar…
Chinese officials have pledged to bolster Cambodia’s railway infrastructure, according to local media reports. National news agency Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported yesterday that an agreement was made following Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun’s request for Chinese aid in developing the province’s railroad infrastructure. Cambodia’s existing 264 kilometre-long Southern Line connects the coastal city…
Canopy Sands Development, a member of Prince Holding Group has approved a masterplan for Ream City developed by Surbana Jurong Group, a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consultancy headquartered in Singapore. The masterplan specifies a land use plan for the 834-hectare project requiring total investments estimated at $16 billion, and will be developed on…
With five free trade agreements (FTAs) on the docket this year, Cambodia is bolstering its logistics network in anticipation of the deals. To that end, last month the Prime Minister approved the immediate upgrade of the Stung Bot, Bavet and Poipet checkpoints. Sopheavatey Sorn, director of logistics at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport,…
Canopy Sands Development Co Ltd, a member of Prince Holding Group, one of Cambodia’s largest and fastest growing conglomerates, approved a master plan to develop Preah Sihanouk province’s Ream bay into the $16 billion Ream City. The masterplan specifies a land use plan for the 834ha project, which will be developed on reclaimed land and…
A 34-road infrastructure project in Preah Sihanouk province has completed initial construction of concrete roadways and drainage systems and is on schedule to be entirely finished in the first half of next year. Provincial hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post on December 28 that 98 per cent of light poles had been installed as…
Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth said the government welcomed investments worth €80 million ($97 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the Irrigated Agriculture Improvement Project (IAIP) in Cambodia. He regarded this project as a crucial step towards improving living conditions and agricultural production in the country. The Asian Development Bank (ADB),…
Vietnam will see strong growth in industrial property next year due to higher demand for industrial parks as business expand production or relocate out of China, according to Savills Vietnam. “In the coming years, particularly 2021 and 2022, I think we are going to see a big emphasis on supply,” said John Campbell, Industrial Services,…
At least three Chinese companies are investing in industrial steaming equipment to use in the phytosanitary treatment of agricultural products for export, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon told The Post on Monday. This comes in response to the Chinese government’s June 9 official approval of the export of 500,000 tonnes of Cambodian…
The construction of the more than $1.9 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has not been delayed despite the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than 26 per cent of the project completed and expected to finish in about two years, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Vasim Sorya. The first expressway in Cambodia…
The once dormant Cambodian gaming capital of Sihanoukville is returning with a modernized model for the times that appears prepared to create added steady revenue flow for Cambodia. Recent History Originally arising from a construction boom backed primarily by Chinese investors, Sihanoukville developed into a resort of palm-fringed beaches with no regard for urban planning,…
Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s dominant coastal province – is positioned for future growth as the country’s principal gateway onto the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and global trade routes. It is set to be modelled after the high successful Shenzen development master plan which turned backwaters near the Hong Kong border into a bustling metropolis. Urban planning…
The coastal city of Sihanoukville has recently undergone a $294 million restoration and expansion project of 34 roads, making it more accessible, clean and ready for the return of tourism. In November last year, the government, with the attendance of Prime Minister Hun Sen, began the work, spanning 82 kilometres. A key issue in Sihanoukville…
Cambodia Airports said it completed the runway expansion and renovation at Sihanouk International Airport on Tuesday as part of its post-Covid-19 era business expansion plans. It extended the 2,500m runway by 800m, reinforced the current airstrip and installed an LED airfield lighting system to reduce its carbon footprint, it said in a statement. The runway…
The government is studying the possibility of a railway from Phnom Penh to Bavet town, the Cambodian-Vietnamese international border checkpoint. The project would contribute to better trade between the two countries, according to transportation sector insiders. Ministry of Public Works and Transport undersecretary of state Ly Borin told The Post on Monday a new railway…
The improvement project of National Road 3 that links Phnom Penh to Kampot province has now reached 89 percent. The project started in May 2018 and is estimated to cost approximately $219 million. The upgraded National Road 3 will also connect Cambodia’s natural tourist and coastal areas to Phnom Penh, the heart of the country….
The Kingdom’s first expressway project, built by state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC) through its subsidiary Cambodia PPSHV Expressway Co Ltd, linking Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, at a cost of roughly $1.9billion, is now about 30 percent of its 190 kilometres complete. Cambodia is also considering the construction of a Phnom Penh logistics centre…
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) plans to expand deep port terminal into phase II and phase III aiming to handle the container traffic at the port, as the traffic of containers are predicted to increase in the years to come. As planned, the port terminal will be expanded to 410 metre long and 16 metre deep,…
Vietnam needs another 5,000 MW in power plant capacity by 2025, which will cost it around $7-10 billion each year. “We need policies to mobilize all resources, domestic and foreign, for energy development,” Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said Wednesday at the Vietnam Energy Summit 2020. The government will amend laws on electricity, oil…
A 700 MW coal-fired power plant in Sihanoukville province is set to begin construction soon, as authorities announce they have completed an environmental and social impact review. The $1.3 billion project is developed by Cambodia International Investment Development Group Co Ltd (CIIDG), in coordination with partner Huadian Sihanoukville Power Generation Co Ltd. “The project will…
Vietnam Railways Corporation plans to operate freight trains to China and onward to third countries such as Russia and others in Europe this year. In its 2020 plans, the company seeks to step up utilization of international freight transport with plans to ship fruits and aquaculture products directly from southern provinces to China using refrigerated…
The coastal province of Preah Sihanouk – considered to be one of the Kingdom’s economic hubs and a southwest rising star of the country – will soon be home to six more special economic zones (SEZ). The additions will bring the total number of industrial parks in the province to 10, the provincial administration reported….
Prime Minister Hun Sen said the 34 roads and other infrastructure projects underway in Preah Sihanouk are preparing the province to be a model of sustainable development for Cambodia’s coastal areas and a special economic area that will attract tourists and foreign investors. He said this at a meeting with officials in charge of Preah…
The outbreak of COVID-19 has frozen many sectors in Cambodia: hotels shuttered, workers in garment factories laid off, trade disrupted, and tourism stopped. Despite all the obstacles brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction of the first expressway in Cambodia continues to make headway day by day under a joint effort made by Chinese and…
A ring road for transport linking Sihanoukville deep seaport to a road section of National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nup district through Stung Hav district has broken ground late last week. According to the ministry, built by China Road & Bridge Corporation Co., Ltd., the road construction would cost nearly US$77 million…
Sihanouk International Airport will soon increase its capacity to allow for long-haul flights – flights longer than seven hours – and the upgrade is expected to enhance relations in the trade, investment and tourism sectors between Cambodia and the rest of the world. At a press conference on the “Progress and Implementation plan of the…
Cambodia is planning to build a new container seaport in Preah Sihanouk province with financial assistance from Japan, Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said last week. A 14.5m-deep port, funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will soon be built in the southern province, he told a press conference. The container…
The government aims to transform Sihanoukville into Cambodia’s industrial hub – a “second Shenzhen city”, Ministry of Economy and Finance secretary of state Vongsey Vissoth said. Located along the coast, Preah Sihanouk province boasts an international airport, a railway line connected to Phnom Penh and the Kingdom’s only deep-sea port. Its construction sector has attracted…
