The Eastern Economic Passage (EEC) Policy Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the other day greenlighted the brand-new clever city advancement covering a 15,000-rai plot of land in Bang Lamung district, Chon Buri, 15 kilometres from U-tapao airport.
According to Kanit Sangsubhan, secretary-general of the EEC Workplace, the brand-new clever city is approximated to draw 1.34 trillion baht’s worth of financial investment over ten years, producing 200,000 brand-new tasks, more than 1.2 trillion baht’s worth of work worth and contribute 2 trillion baht over ten years.
The job is slated to include monetary centres, local head office and centres of federal government firms, digital market, logistics services, research study centres and domestic structures for employees.
The brand-new clever city is anticipated to be house to 300,000 individuals.
The brand-new clever city advancement won the cabinet’s approval on March 22. It is the 5th flagship facilities job in the Eastern Economic Passage (EEC).
The brand-new advancement job follows a high-speed train link in between 3 airports; the advancement of U-tapao airport; the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port Stage 3; and Laem Chabang Port Stage 3.
The 4 existing flagship advancement jobs deserve a combined 655 billion baht, with the economic sector supplying 416 billion baht and the federal government comprising the rest.
The EEC Workplace currently signed agreements with the economic sector for 4 jobs. The stacking work of the much-wanted high-speed train link in between 3 airports is set up to begin in October this year.
Mr Kanit stated earlier of the overall financial investment in the brand-new clever city advancement, 37.7 billion baht will originate from federal government firms, 131 billion from public-private collaborations and 1.18 trillion from personal financial investment.
Public-private collaboration offers are most likely for hotels, federal government centres and real estate estates, while personal financial investment is anticipated to take part in research study centres and education centres, organization centres and services for the future such as tidy energy, digital and logistics.
In an associated advancement, the EEC Policy Committee the other day likewise acknowledged the EEC Workplace’s seawater desalination advancement jobs at Map Ta Phut and Pattaya worth a combined 7.7 billion baht to make sure enough water system in the EEC locations.
The advancements will remain in the kind of a public-private collaboration (PPP), with the joint financial investment job at Map Ta Phut to be dealt with by the EEC Workplace and the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand.
The Pattaya job will be collectively carried out by the EEC Workplace and Pattaya Town.
The jobs are anticipated to assist provide 200,000 cubic metres of water each day to the EEC in 2027, increasing to 300,000 cu m each day in 2037.
Desalination is a synthetic procedure through which saline water– generally seawater– is transformed into fresh water. The most typical desalination procedures are distillation and reverse osmosis.
The seawater desalination jobs would assist avoid possible water scarcities in the EEC location if an extreme dry spell were to occur.
