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Thailand: Thai transport quotas to rise
Thailand: Thai transport quotas to rise
Wednesday, 20 July 2016 – Cambodia and five other countries that share the Mekong River have agreed to open their borders to more commercial truck and tourist bus traffic as part of a transnational agreement aimed at promoting regional logistics and tourism, a senior transport official said yesterday.
Transport officials from the six member states of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) – which includes Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and southern China – met in Bangkok last week to hammer out new quotas under the Cross-Border Transport Facilitation Agreement (CBTA). Under the revised framework, each country except Myanmar will have a quota of 500 cross-border permits for trucks and tourist buses by the end of the year. Read More?