The Cambodian Minister of Transport Sun Chanthol revealed plans for a new railway line connecting Bavet city in Svay Rieng province (Cambodia) to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city. Both governments are considering the creation of a rail link between the two countries and are cooperating to attract private sector investment for the project, he said. The project is in the early stages of conceptualization, with the governments now working on a feasibility study.
The Bavet-Ho Chi Minh city project replaces a previous railway project that was intended to connect Kampong Speu’s Bat Deng commune with Luc Ning in Vietnam, according to Ly Borin, under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Transport. “The Bat Deng-Luc Ning railway was given careful consideration, but we arrived to the conclusion that it was too expensive. As such, we settled on a new line which is shorter than the previous planned railway,” Ly Borin said, adding that the Bavet-Ho Chi Minh city railway will be around 250 kilometres long, while the discarded project was planned to cover 300 kilometres.
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