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Laem Chabang Port |
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Laem Chabang Port is
situated in the districts of Sriracha and Banglamung of Chol Buri
Province, at a distance of about 130 kilometers from Bangkok. The
port covers an area of around 2,506 acres. |
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The Laem Chabang
Port's policy of development is focused on enabling the port to
accommodate post panamax size ships and to be the transhipment hub
of Indo-China region. LCP has been developed to be international
standard port and was recently announced by Cargonews Asia to be one
of the five best ports in Asia along with Hong Kong, singapore,
Malaysia and Philippines. |
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Major LCP development are as follows
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1. Provision of modern mechanical handling
equipment together with NAVIS system for port management and
container terminal. |
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2. Promoting container operators and shipping
lines to bring in mother ships to the port since 1996. Currently
there are 5 major liners directly call at the port that help reduce
the expenses on transhipment in neighboring countries. This results
in less overall cost for Thailand's import and
export. |
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3. The port traffic dramatically increased
from 1,360 TEU in 1991 to 1,036,063 TEU in 1997 and 1.75 million TEU
in 1999. |
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4. Phase I development is nearly completed
with the maximum capacity of 1.65 million TEU. Meanwhile, the
initial stage of Phase II has been started to serve up to 3.5
million TEU in 2010. The first terminal under Phase II development
was completed and is under the process of selecting the terminal
operator. |
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PAT is also selecting the operator for the
Multi-purpose terminal. The result is expected to be announced by
the end of this year. |
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Source: PAT, 49th ANNIVERSARY, 16
MAY 2000 |
