OCIC Mulls Building Expressway from New Phnom Penh Airport to City Centre

Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) is considering building an expressway connecting its new Phnom Penh International Airport in Kandal province to central Phnom Penh to help ease travel after the airport’s completion in 2023, according to the spokesman for the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation.

Spokesman of State Secretariat of Civil Aviation HE Sin Chansereyvutha said that OCIC has just recently informed his office about this expressway.

“We have asked the company, and the company said it has a plan to build an expressway. However, it is a separate project from the airport project. The expressway project is handled by another team of the company,” said HE Sin.

“The company has to have good access roads to the airport. The roads can be built through Kbal Thnol intersection, through 60-metre road to the airport, or through ring road 3 and 4,” he added.

During the meeting with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) regarding the location selection for ring road 4, HE Sin Chansereyvutha also recommended that the airport is necessarily connected to ring roads. Therefore, the MPWT shall consider that fact when choosing the locations.

The new Phnom Penh International Airport is a massive project in Cambodia worth over US$1.5 billion. As of April this year, the project is around 30% complete and the first phase is expected to be finished in 2023, attracting around 13 million tourists each year. (Read more)

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