A national committee and a public-private joint venture will be set up to take care of the joint ticketing system for the city’s public transport, transport permanent secretary Soithip Traisuth said on Wednesday. The proposal, made by the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, will be forwarded to the Transport Ministry for consideration next […]
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Thai and Chinese authorities have agreed on a 60-40 shareholding plan in their first-ever joint venture to oversee management of the double-track rail routes to facilitate travel from Bangkok to southern China. Their latest meeting resolved to have the State Railway of Thailand hold a 30% stake, Thai private companies experienced in rail management take another […]
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BANGKOK: Thailand is doing a feasibility study into the proposal for a cross-country railway that will link two ports in the country’s south, a senior government official has confirmed with IHS Maritime. The plan is for the railway to link Pak Bara in Satun on the Andaman Sea (or west coast) with Songkhla 2 seaport […]
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The Mae Moh coal-fired power plant, seen in this 2012 file photo, is set to be upgraded with a new cleaner plant under an agreement announced Tuesday by Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp, which will build a 600-megawatt coal-fired power generator at the Lampang facility. (Bangkok Post/Greenpeace photo) Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp said Tuesday […]
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is now constructing its eighth flood tunnel with aim to ease flooding in the capital’s six major areas. It has planned to build four other flood tunnels which will resolve flooding in the capital sustainably. The assurance of resolving flood problem in Bangkok on a sustainable basis was given by […]
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The Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) will today begin boring tunnel under the Chao Phraya river for its Blue Line expansion project. The deep tunnel boring project will be the country’s second tunnel under the river. The tunnel boring ceremony will be chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today. MRTA board chairman Gen Yodyuth […]
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Singapore-based property investment firm Pacific Star has unveiled its latest condominium project – a Bt4.2-billion project on Tiwanon Road in Bangkok – that will be within walking distance of an MRT station along the new Purple Line. Jirawat Kateseang, Pacific Star Thailand vice president and head of sales and marketing, said that the company will […]
Continue ReadingA panel set up by the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) has concluded that there was nothing illegal about paying additional construction costs of 290 million baht for an extension of its Blue Line electric rail route. The investigation was started after the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) recently sent the MRTA an […]
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Graham Storah, executive vice president of Loxley International LOXLEY International Co expects to start construction of the first Kompogas plant in Thailand by the end of the third quarter. Graham Storah, executive vice president of Loxley International, said Kompogas utilised “dry thermophilic anaerobic digestion” technology to treat organic fractions of waste.The process produces biogas, which […]
Continue ReadingBMA ‘ready’ to pay off B19bn of MRTA debts City Hall has welcomed the government’s decision to let it take over the extension of the Green Line electric rail from Bearing to Samut Prakan. The line was previously under the care of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA). The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) […]
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