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Business turns against Satun deep-sea port

The future of the planned Pak Bara deep-sea port in Satun province is dismal after potential users on Wednesday recommended the government scrap the long delayed project.

Deputy Transport Minister Prasert Chanruangthong said after a meeting with the private sector representatives, including transport operators, that they were not keen on the project, which had been planned for Langu district in the southern province's Andaman coast.

The project needs a cash injection of 15 billion baht and they were not confident about its prospects, the deputy minister said.

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  • DonAleman

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    Discussion 2 : 31 Jan 2013 at 13.252

    Now finally, after 8 years of trying to figure out what all these ministers actually do, I got it ! Hoping to impress the media, they spend a year or two, consulting with the local barkeep, and "brainstorm" some impossible "blue sky" project. Then, in another year or two, set up a "Master Plan" and the next 2 or 3 years insisting "it can be done" in spite of 12 or 13 protest groups validly saying why it cannot.The budget runs out and everyone, (whew), forgets what "Whatsisname" proposed and moves on to, maybe, a "High speed rail system " !

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    Discussion 1 : 30 Jan 2013 at 18.371

    It's all about Dawei now. Apparently the future is in Burma. (Which is a bit ironic considering they can't deal with their own social problems).

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