PATTAYA, Oct 28 - The demand for natural gas vehicles (NGVs) in Thailand is expected to rise in response to rising oil prices, and in anticipation some fuel refiners have already started to up their production output to cope with the coming demand.
Led by Metta Banturngsuk, director-general of the Energy Business Department, Thai government Energy Ministry officials on Sunday inspected a large automobile garage and service centre in this eastern resort which also offers a specialised...... (read more)
BANGKOK, Oct 4 - Deputy Transport Minister Sansern Wongcha-um on Thursday revealed he would seek Cabinet approval for a master plan on the logistic system network development within two weeks after the Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning Office reached a conclusion on investment figures.
Delivering a keynote speech at a seminar on "Logistics Asia 2007: Go Regional," held by the Thai Chamber of Commerce, he reiterated Thailand needs to complete the development of logistics in each...... (read more)
BANGKOK, Sept 23 - Thai Airways International Public Co., Ltd. (THAI), the country's flag carrier, opposes the idea of reinstating Bangkok's former Don Muang airport --now serving airliners for domestic routes -- as another international airport to ease traffic congestion at Suvarnabhumi international airport.
THAI president Apinan Sumanaserani said Suvarnabhumi international airport -- which celebrates its first anniversary of commercial opening September 29 -- is busy during heavy...... (read more)
BANGKOK, Feb 7 - The Thai Airfreight Forwarders Association (TAFA) will submit a list of airfreight problems found at Suvarnabhumi Airport to the government for short- and long-term solutions, TAFA
chairman Kovit Thanyarattakul said here Tuesday.
Mr. Kovit said since the moving of Bangkok's international airport from Don Muang to Suvarnabhumi in September, the airfreight forwarders as well as importers and exporters had faced 50 per cent higher
costs.
The higher overhead came from...... (read more)
Bangkok, Feb 4: Coast guard officials from Japan, Malaysia and Thailand on Friday staged their first joint exercise to fight piracy in the Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways and key to Asian trade.
The three-hour drill in calm waters between Thailand's island of Phuket and Malaysia's Langkawi island began with "pirates" hijacking a Japanese supertanker and kidnapping some of its crew. Malaysia's police commandos later stormed the tanker before arresting the "kidnappers"....... (read more)
Bangkok, Feb 3: Something is definitely rotten at Bangkok's brand new 3.9-billion-dollar Suvarnabhumi Airport, and it's not just the lack of sufficient toilets.
The airport, which opened last September to huge publicity after years of delay and bad press, has had to partially close because cracks have appeared on some runways.
Thailand's transport ministry is to recommend some domestic flights be transferred from Bangkok's new airport to the decommissioned old one.
Suvarnabhumi...... (read more)
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