Construction work to renovate National Highway 5 begins
The renovation of National Road 5 continues, with construction work on the section that runs from Prek Kdam area in Kandal to Thlea Ma’Am in Pursat province beginning yesterday. The 135-kilometre road section will be expanded to four lanes at a cost of $261 million. The project is being financed with a concessional loan from the Japanese government.
[…]“We are very happy to see that improving transportation with Thailand and Vietnam is being prioritised. The movement of goods in the Greater Mekong Subregion is not efficient, and there are many issues hampering trade, including cumbersome bureaucracy and bad roads,” he said.
