In a surprise move on March 12, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced an indefinite postponement of the proposed land and buildings tax, due to its potential impact on low-income homeowners and the country’s uncertain economic outlook. The new land and buildings tax would replace the local house and land tax that is based on […]
Continue ReadingThe operator of the skytrain has expressed an interest in being part of the Thai-Chinese double-track rail route joint venture. The project caught the attention of Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc, or BTS, after Transport Minister ACM Prajin Juntong recently declared that private Thai companies with experience in railway operations would be welcome to join […]
Continue Reading
Myanmar workers get their passports stamped at the immigration checkpoint next to the first Tak-Myawaddy bridge in Mae Sot district. The second bridge will be built nearby in some three years to relieve congestion. (Photo by Assawin Pinijwong) The Transport Ministry will seek 3.9 billion baht to fund a second bridge spanning the Moei River […]
Continue ReadingWHEN real-estate developers talk about bringing in new technology to their buildings, the natural thought is to imagine they mean new materials, such as better glass or steel, or more advanced forms of pre-cast and prepared materials such as load-bearing pre-cast walls or modular bathrooms – or devices such as more efficient lighting or smarter […]
Continue Reading
Toyo Engineering Corporation has awarded Pöyry with engineering services assignments for nine 120 MW and three 130 MW gas fired combined cycle power plant projects in Thailand. The owner of the projects is Gulf MP Company, who has selected Toyo Engineering as EPC contractor. The Notice to Proceed (NTP) for the first project was issued on […]
Continue ReadingALSTOM (Thailand) is ready to bid on a coal-fired power plant project in Krabi. President Didier Farez said yesterday that the company had its own advanced environmental management technologies. Many power plants in Europe, especially in Germany, have used Alstom’s technologies, he said. The company might partner again with Marubeni Corporation on the bid.Alstom, in […]
Continue ReadingA national committee and a public-private joint venture will be set up to take care of the joint ticketing system for the city’s public transport, transport permanent secretary Soithip Traisuth said on Wednesday. The proposal, made by the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, will be forwarded to the Transport Ministry for consideration next […]
Continue Reading
Thai and Chinese authorities have agreed on a 60-40 shareholding plan in their first-ever joint venture to oversee management of the double-track rail routes to facilitate travel from Bangkok to southern China. Their latest meeting resolved to have the State Railway of Thailand hold a 30% stake, Thai private companies experienced in rail management take another […]
Continue Reading
BANGKOK: Thailand is doing a feasibility study into the proposal for a cross-country railway that will link two ports in the country’s south, a senior government official has confirmed with IHS Maritime. The plan is for the railway to link Pak Bara in Satun on the Andaman Sea (or west coast) with Songkhla 2 seaport […]
Continue Reading
The Mae Moh coal-fired power plant, seen in this 2012 file photo, is set to be upgraded with a new cleaner plant under an agreement announced Tuesday by Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp, which will build a 600-megawatt coal-fired power generator at the Lampang facility. (Bangkok Post/Greenpeace photo) Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp said Tuesday […]
Continue Reading