The Royal Thai Navy is set to invest combined 2.04 billion baht on 13 advancement tasks, consisting of ferryboat ports and associated centers, to accommodate the much-touted Eastern Economic Passage (EEC).
Nathporn Chatusripitak, an advisor to Prime Minister’s Workplace Minister Suvit Maesincee, stated the tasks will consist of 2 quays for ferryboats and cruise liners, a ferryboat terminal, multimodal transportation and a service location covering 20,000 square metres at Chuk Samet, Sattahip in Chon Buri province.
The advancement tasks will connect to land transportation paths and U-tapao airport as part of the federal government’s enthusiastic strategy to update eastern provinces to end up being a logistics center for the area.
The paths are likewise designated to support the tourist market in the area and boost products transport to other ports.
Sattahip industrial port is among Thailand’s deep-water ports and is house to the biggest marine base for the Royal Thai Navy and its only carrier. The Royal Thai Navy’s industrial port has 6 quays, covering 20,000 square metres. 3 quays are committed to the Royal Thai Navy’s warships and the staying quays are utilized for the transportation of products.
According to the port upgrade strategy, the Royal Thai Navy plans to update the latter 3 to accommodate ferryboats and cruise liner and increase their capability to deal with products.
Of the overall 2.04 billion baht financial investment budget plan, 642 million will be at the Royal Thai Navy’s cost and the staying 1.39 billion will be spent for through federal government budget plan under financial 2018-19.
Mr Nathporn stated 2 ferryboat ports worth 198 million baht will be established at the 6th quay to deal with 4,000 travelers a day. Building will be executed in August and arranged for conclusion in 2019.
The staying port will be established to serve ferryboat services from Sattahip through Pranburi to Hua Hin, which lower the commute to 90 minutes from the 6-7 hours journey by roadway; from Sattahip through Koh Chang to Sihanoukville and Ho Chi Minh City, and from Sattahip to Koh Samui and Singapore.
The ferryboat terminal is arranged to be finished by early 2017, with a financial investment of 130 million baht.
Mr Nathporn stated the Royal Thai Navy will likewise update existing oil jetty capability to support big cruises. The financial investment will assist support marine tourist, as promoted by the federal government.
Other tasks consisted of the building of a breakwater, organization location, multimodal transport, and the growth of four-lane roadway connecting Chuk Samet to the double-track rail network and U-tapao airport.
The Pattaya-Map Ta Phut freeway will be likewise constructed to connect U-tapao airport, he stated.
Once the U-tapao airport’s upgrade strategy is finished, visitors will be provided an alternative path to fly to U-tapao airport and travel in Pattaya or take the high-speed rail from U-tapao to take a trip in Bangkok.
The EEC policy committee, chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, early this month authorized an 8-billion-baht financial investment budget plan for a 2nd runway at U-tapao airport. The investment will originate from the main budget plan of financial 2018.
The 2nd runway is anticipated to be functional in 3 years.
The federal government will likewise enable a public-private collaboration (ppp) for the airport’s 2nd terminal.
The terminal is arranged to be completed in 5 years, increasing capability at the airport to 15 million travelers, up from 3 million.
After raising U-tapao airport’s capability to 15 million travelers in the very first stage, the 2nd stage requires servicing 30 million travelers in ten years. The last is to deal with 60 million travelers in twenty years. The advancement is anticipated to need 200 billion baht.
U-tapao airport advancement is the very first facilities task the federal government wishes to open for bidding this year.
Other fast-track tasks are the Bangkok-Rayong high-speed rail task, worth 158 billion baht, anticipated to open for bidding this year under the PPP plan; the 88-billion-baht 3rd stage of the Laem Chabang deep-sea port; and the 64.3- billion-baht double-track rail link in between the 3 deep-sea ports of Bangkok, Laem Chabang and Map Ta Phut.
