A bird’s eye view of National Road 7 at the Skun Roundabout in Kampong Cham province on January 9. PUBLIC WORKS MINISTRY
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has approved 112 new action plans to be implemented this year for further improvement in the sector, a senior official said.
Ken Ratha, head of the ministry’s General Department of Administration and Finance, said at an annual meeting that these 112 new action plans cover administrative work, financial and budgetary affairs, international relations and cooperation, and work related to the law and legislation planned to further improve the sector.
“At this meeting, I also urged all the staff and officials to continue cultivating a strong will to perform their tasks and unit as one and to perform all tasks efficiently,” he said.
In the past year, the ministry laid out 109 action plans, 80 of which were implemented successfully with 29 others set to be executed this year.
Minister Sun Chanthol also said that in the past year, the ministry had many positive achievements that brought remarkable benefits.
These included roads, bridges, ports, transportation, land, waterways, railways and logistics. In particular, public service delivery through automated systems is now more convenient, fast, transparent and efficient.
He continued that the ministry has been widening and upgrading important transport infrastructure and increasing regional integration.
“We have been widening important transport infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, waterways and ports along with bridge construction projects, especially the planned Phnom Penh-Bavet expressway, Phnom Penh-Bavet railway, Phnom Penh-Siem Reap railway and Siem Reap-Poipet railway,” he said.
“We’ve also connected roads, waterways and railways with neighbouring countries and with the logistics master plan we have developed.”
Chanthol also highlighted the use of information technology such as automated transportation systems and the Port Electronic Data Interchange (Port EDI) system and encouraged the use of electric vehicles (EVs) to achieve Cambodia’s long-term strategy for carbon neutrality (LTS4CN) by 2050.
He said Cambodia would need nearly $50 billion to develop about 330 projects in the next 10 years to make the logistics sector more competitive and contribute to the attraction of investments that create more jobs in the Kingdom.
