Laos, Thailand, China to build new railway bridge for freight

Laos, Thailand, and China are thinking about building a new railway bridge, running parallel to the first Lao-Thai friendship bridge, to assist the cross-border transport of containers, according to the Lao media.

According to VNA, the construction will start 30m from the first Lao-Thai friendship bridge and have a total of four railway lines.

At the moment, due to a difference in track gauges, Thai cargo containers headed for China need to be unloaded from trains at a container terminal in Nong Khai and loaded onto container trucks to cross the Lao-Thai friendship bridge to Vientiane. Here they are then loaded onto the Laos-China railway for shipment to China.

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Thailand is keen to use the railway to ship more agricultural products to China, particularly orchids, rubber, cassava, palm oil, and fishery and livestock products.

More than 1 million tonnes of goods have been transported on the Laos-China railway since it became operational eight months ago. Goods worth 1.35 billion USD have been transported on this route.

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