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Project Monitor, an Asian infrastructure news website, has commented that "early beneficiaries of the Asian Highway project are the planners within the national land transport department of the participating countries [since] it assists them in planning the most cost-effective and efficient routes to promote domestic and international trade ...
The East–West Economic corridor is an economic development program initiated in order to promote development and integration of 5 Southeast Asian countries, namely: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The concept was agreed upon in 1998 at the Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion, organized in Manila, the Philippines.
The Land Bridge Project aims to link the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea, resulting in a more efficient transportation network for the region. The project is expected to be approved by the cabinet in June 2023, and construction is planned to begin in 2025 with an estimated completion date of 2030. [12] [10] [11] [3] [9] [13]
This line will also be extended to the port city of Danang in Vietnam, and give landlocked Laos an outlet to the South China Sea. [18] Laos has been one of the strongest supports of the project given its desire to change from a land-locked to land-linked economy. [14]: 50–51
The Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning or OTP (Thai: สำนักงานนโยบายและแผนการขนส่งและจราจร) is a department of the Thai government, under the Ministry of Transport.
Thailand was in conflict with Vietnam because of Thai opposition to Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia. Border raids were launched between both nations, damaged much of Cambodia, and further soured relations. Hostility between Thailand and Vietnam ended in 1989, when Vietnamese forces withdrew from Cambodia.
Later reports raised estimated costs to US$56 billion (almost 60 percent of Vietnam's GDP in 2009) for a completion date in the mid-2030s. On June 19, 2010, after a month of deliberation, Vietnam's National Assembly rejected the high speed rail proposal due to its high cost; National Assembly deputies had asked for further study of the project.
They are being moved from there to the Department of Land Transport's three Bangkok bus terminals. [34] Passenger vans have a disturbing safety record. The Safe Public Transport Travel Project of the Foundation for Consumers, reports that passenger vans in 2018 were involved in 75 accidents, causing 314 injuries and 41 deaths. [35]