Little interest from carriers, put off by included expenses and transit hold-ups Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin leaves air force headoffice to board a aircraft for Ranong on Monday earlymorning. (Photo: @Thavisin X account) With the federalgovernment intent on drumming up foreign financier assistance for its proposed land bridge, a Chulalongkorn University scientist alerts they might be prevented by the sheer size of the job. Lecturer Sompong Sirisoponsil, part of the university’s group studying the plan, stated on Monday the substantial size of the land bridge style might make financiers mindful about putting their cash into the job. “Considering the quantity of cash required to invest, they might not be interested in the job,” he stated throughout an interview on the university’s radio program. Mr Sompong stated financiers may ask the federalgovernment to scale it down, or need more beneficial conditions in exchange for financialinvestment. The land bridge would consistof a brand-new train line and a brand-new highway and link the South China Sea with Chumphon, on the Gulf of Thailand, and the Andaman Sea in Ranong, with a deepsea port to be developed at each end. The building expense of the whole job is approximated at 1 trillion baht. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin stated last week on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Switzerand that Dubai Ports World, a international logistics business, hadactually revealed inter
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