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The construction of nearly USD 2 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway is 51.35 per cent completed and expected to be finished in 2023, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Vasim Sorya.
Invested by Cambodian PPSHV Expressway Co Ltd, this first expressway in Cambodia will boast a total length of 190.3km and stretch from Samrong Krom commune in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district to Sihanoukville’s Commune III.
At a width of 24.5m with two lanes on either side, the road will be developing into a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis.
Sorya said: “This project will help to boost the freight and trade sector by providing fast connectivity to the deep-sea port in Sihanoukville.”
At the same time, more than USD 219 million road improvement project for National Road 3 linking Phnom Penh to Kampot town had been 98 per cent completed.
Involving more than 134km of road, the project broke ground on May 7, 2018, built by China Road and Bridge Corp and technically supervised by Guangzhou Wanan Construction Supervision Co Ltd. This project funded by China consortium and Cambodian government.
According to Sorya, the project will be completing a year earlier than the construction plan.
With the sheer number of factories, manufacturing enterprises and other businesses that rely on it, National Road 3 was construct by taking into consideration of technical factors, adding that a high volume of logistic vehicles exceeding the weight limit on the road was a key reason prompting the ministry to back the project.
National Road 3 will divert traffic from National Road 4, as an alternative route to the port of Sihanoukville, a connection to the South Sea corridor between Koh Kong and Thailand’s Trat province, and a link to the corridor with Ha Tieng province in Vietnam. This road will also benefit the tourism sector.
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