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Port plan pitched to parties

Chadchart targets floods, pollution

Shipment containers are sorted at Bangkok Port last year. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

City Hall will pitch to those political parties canvassing for votes the idea of integrating Bangkok Port in Klong Toey with the Laem Chabang deep-sea port in Chon Buri to lessen problems in the capital, including floods and air pollution.

According to Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt, the relocation could reduce the number of trips by freight trucks entering and leaving Bangkok Port by at least a million a year, which would free up room on the roads and help to ease the level of PM2.5 pollution.

He said City Hall would propose to the parties ways of tackling Bangkok’s flood…

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