Good idea or $30bn folly?
The land bridge project is designed to provide a new trade route between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It will include two deep sea ports on Thailand’s eastern and western coasts as well as a rail and road system linking them together. The eastern port will be located in Chumphon province on the Gulf of Thailand and the other in Ranong province on the Andaman Sea.
The first phase of the land bridge project is expected to finish in 2030, with the final completion targeted in 2039. Deep sea ports would be built at either end of the “bridge”, where containers would be unloaded, transported across the peninsula, and continue on another ship.
Thailands ambitious 'Land Bridge'
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I'm not seeing how it cuts the journey time unless the Malacca Strait is congested for days. Loading/unloading a container ship seems to take anything from 3 days to 10 days, surely a ship can get around the Malacca Strait faster than that? For a big container ship that is potential 10 days to unload it, then put it all on a train and get it across the country and then load it all up again on another ship for another 10 days. A whopping great canal would make more sense surely?
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