Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet this morning mentioned that the Funan Techo Canal project is scheduled to break ground in August this year.
“The project is a big national symbol and a historical achievement of Cambodia,” he said at the inauguration ceremony of achievements of the Buddhist Cultural Centre of Cambodia in Phnom Sruoch district, Kampong Speu province.
Regarding this project, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia H.E. Sun Chanthol said it had been thoroughly studied by a group of nearly 50 experts.
The Funan Techo Canal project has very little impact, while the economic analysis and evaluation show that it will provide great benefits for the areas of trade, tourism, urban planning and construction and so on, he underlined.
According to the project’s feasibility study, the US$1.7 billion Funan Techo Canal project is 180 kilometres long and 100 metres wide upstream and 80 metres downstream with two navigation lanes. The construction would take around four years to complete.
The canal will link Prek Takeo of Mekong River to the sea in Kep province crossing four provinces: Kandal, Takeo, Kampot and Kep with a total of 1.6 million people living on either side of the waterway.
