"Transport"

Thailand and France – a vital European Union member with significant trade and investment potential – have a long relationship. Trade between the two countries has always been strong and France is significant to Thailand’s economy. While the Thai private sector has invested in France, there are currently over 280 French companies doing business in Thailand.

The World Bank on Wednesday approved $1.03 billion of financing to help improve regional trade in Nepal and Bangladesh by reducing trade and transport costs and transit time along the regional corridors.

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is celebrating His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s 70th birthday with a special steam train route on July 28.

More people are opting for travel by train as their preferred mode of transport due to high fuel prices. As health concerns caused by Covid-19 are diminishing, people are commuting more often, but higher fuel prices have increased the cost of daily commutes in their own vehicle.

Private bus operators will reduce services by 80 per cent from July 1 due to the high fuel price while the state-run interprovincial bus operator, Transport Company, vowed to keep operating at the same price.

Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul presided over “Thailand Moving Together: Hug, Eat, Fly, Travel, Live Together” meet and greet session and hosted a public hearing with operators in tourism and transport sectors examining ways to make the transition to the endemic phrase of Covid-19, allowing increasing numbers of tourists to enter the kingdom.

Is petrol too costly? No problem, ride your buffalo. And this is exactly what a Nakhon Ratchasima resident did recently.

The state-operated Transport Co Ltd will have buses running on 10 routes from Thailand to Laos from June 15.

The Land Transport Association of Thailand is considering hiking transport fees to cover increasing costs after the Cabinet decided to remove the 30 baht per litre cap on the price of diesel from May 1.

The state-run Transport Co Ltd is offering a 20 per cent discount to those who buy its tickets for travel between April 7-9.

The minister explained masks would still be required in certain situations, such as on public transport, in hospitals and in residential care homes.

The extension of the Bangkok western outer ring road is about 78 per cent complete and should be ready for traffic by January next year, the Department of Highways said.