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Govt mulls southern bridge spots

Govt mulls southern bridge spots

Route would bypass Malacca Strait traffic

The location of the government’s land bridge project in the South — touted as a more convenient way to transport goods from the Middle East to the Pacific region — will be decided by June, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Monday.

The government is surveying locations along the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea in Chumphon and Ranong for engineering, environmental and economic potential, the transport minister said after chairing a meeting of the government’s committee on the southern land bridge project on Monday.

The Chumphon-Ranong land bridge project will serve as a link for the transport of oil from the Strait of Hormuz, more than 4,000 kilometres away from the Andaman Sea, to a port…

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