Module 7
Read the following passage and select the best answer for the questions that follow. (Items 41-45)
The government will pump 200,000 million baht to finance 55% of the new railway system which is expected to cut certain exporters’ costs by 10 million baht per year while bringing Thailand one step nearer to its goal of becoming the Hub of Asia. Nonetheless, if development of supporting infrastructures is delayed and railroad tracks and carriage procurement falls short of private sector demand, overall shift from trucking to rail transportation will not occur.
(Source: Logistics Digest, Vol.02 No. 18 September 2006, p.29)