The Myanmar government will jointly perform a feasibility study
with a private company from Thailand to explore the possibility of
building a new deep-sea port in the country's southeastern Mon State
facing the Gulf of Moattama, state media reported Friday.
The Port Authority of the Ministry of Transport recently signed a
memorandum of understanding with Thailand's Emerald Grand Hotel Co. to
start conducting, within three months, the feasibility study for the
Kalargote deep-sea port project located between Ye and Mawlamyine towns
in Mon State, the New Light of Myanmar daily said.
The Kalargote deep-sea port project is part of an old
infrastructure development project in Myanmar that never materialized.
If successful, it could be easily linked up to the Three Pagoda
Pass route, one of the country's major trading routes with Thailand, the
paper said.
The study will also cover the environmental, social and economic
impacts that could affect the livelihoods of the local people living in
the area, it said.
Earlier local media reports quoting officials have said the project could create about 12,000 jobs.
Myanmar has two other deep-sea port projects, one in Kyaukphyu
in the country's western Rakhine State, being developed by Chinese
companies, and the other in Dawei in Tanintharyi Region, just south of
Mon State.
But the Dawei deep-sea port project, supposed to be built by
Thailand's Italian-Thai Development, is facing a series of delays due to
financial reasons.
source;Global post
