The IMT-GT Road Map identified five economic corridors as key to strengthening
regional infrastructure to support increased intra- and extra-regional trade, investment and
tourism. These are the (i) Extended Songkhla-Penang-Medan Economic Corridor; (ii) the Straits
of Melaka Economic Corridor; (iii) the Banda Aceh-Medan-Pekanbaru-Palembang Economic
Corridor; (iv) the Melaka-Dumai Economic Corridor; (v) and, the Ranong-Phuket-Bandah Aceh
Economic Corridor. The economic corridor approach has been identified as a core strategy for
accelerated development of the IMT-GT, and development of these economic corridors was
declared a Flagship Project of IMT-GT.