What are the economic potentials to grow Sihanouk Ville?

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By Kong Soriya

PHNOM PENH, Sihanouk Ville is becoming a second most popular city after Phnom Penh, but what is the attracting in such a rapidly investing?

Mr. Yun Min, governor of Sihanouk Ville said early this week there are 4 large special economic zones which is operating daily with a total of 160 factories and 1037 handcrafts and that offers the job to 68,354 people.

Sihanouk Ville welcome tourist with 10 to 15 per cent increasing every year in average. Chinese tourist arrival number is 202,947 which is 68.79 percent. Chinese investment ranks in first and mostly invests in commercial, construction and tourism industry.

Sihanouk Ville has also another big potential in infrastructure, the only one deep-water port in Cambodia, an expressway connecting to Phnom Penh is opening the construction soon, high-speed rail project will be built and there will be an international airport in the city.

Mr. Yun Min said currently Kang Keng international airport is playing an important role to send domestic and international passenger to visit and invest in Sihanouk Ville. The airport operates with 11 airlines; domestic flight is 83 per week and 61 per week for the international flight. There is also a direct flight from 16 cities & province in China.

Kang Keng international airport soon to start its size expanding, target to land a plane with a capacity of 400 passengers which is equivalent to Phnom Penh airport today. After the construction the airport is about the same size as the Siem Reap international airport.

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen recently announced the airport expansion to reach up to 3 to 5 million passengers a year in the future.

“We will work closely with the government to expand the airport, because we are a government partners and what the government ask us to we will do,” said Pichr Sopontara, head of aviation expansion at Cambodian Airports (SCA). He adds that Sihanoukville Airports will welcome about 600,000 passengers by 2018 and will be able to reach up to about 1 million people in 2019.

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