The Cambodian gove’t asks private sector to rehabilitate rivers in the upper Mekong provinces to facilitate navigation

• 14 October 2024
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Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, has announced that the government is looking for a partner or the private sector to rehabilitate rivers in the upper stream of the Mekong River in Cambodia, most of which are shadowed due to sediments blocking shipping navigation.

During a ceremony celebrating the 20th anniversary of Cambodia’s accession to the World Trade Organization held on October 14, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet stated that the sediment at the rivers’ bed must be restored aimed to strengthen the navigation system to make connection of water transport across the country.

“Now we are looking for the private sector to restore the rivers’ bed? Any private sector is interested? In Kampong Cham, Kratie provinces, there is still a lot of sand laid on the rivers’ bed that we need to restore because soon, we boost the waterways to be connected,”

The move to rehabilitate the river in the upper Mekong River in Cambodia is made amid the Royal Government of Cambodia’s building of the Techo Funan Canal to connect the waterway from the Mekong River to the coastal province of Cambodia.