On the volume basis, bulk material, oil/gas, pretoleum product, cement and container are the main freight commodities that railway mode is the most suitable choice for transportation. For bulky commodities, railway offers its advantages of transporting the large volume with high potential of long distance services together with cost effectiveness. This clearly implies that railway mode has potential business opportunity for logistics transportation and at the same time become a powerful policy option that will supports the intermodal development policy of the country. In doing so, the intermodal rail service will help promote Thailand to be the “Center of Logistics & Goods Distribution” under “the North-South and East-
West Economic Corridor Development Plan,” which has been established in respond to the transportation demand in six countries along Mekong River. These include Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, the Yunnan Province of the People’s Republic of China and Thailand, forming the international economic corridor namely Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).. This is in fact a highly prospective opportunity to expand rail freight service that would support the trade in GMS [18]. Asian Development Bank (ADB) [19] states railway link between GMS area as shown in Fig. 1.
On the volume basis, bulk material, oil/gas, pretoleum product, cement and container are the main freight commodities that railway mode is the most suitable choice for transportation. For bulky commodities, railway offers its advantages of transporting the large volume with high potential of long distance services together with cost effectiveness. This clearly implies that railway mode has potential business opportunity for logistics transportation and at the same time become a powerful policy option that will supports the intermodal development policy of the country. In doing so, the intermodal rail service will help promote Thailand to be the “Center of Logistics & Goods Distribution” under “the North-South and East-
West Economic Corridor Development Plan,” which has been established in respond to the transportation demand in six countries along Mekong River. These include Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, the Yunnan Province of the People’s Republic of China and Thailand, forming the international economic corridor namely Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).. This is in fact a highly prospective opportunity to expand rail freight service that would support the trade in GMS [18]. Asian Development Bank (ADB) [19] states railway link between GMS area as shown in Fig. 1.
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