Vientiane Council Urges Compensation for Thanaleng Dry Port Affected Residents

The Vientiane Individuals’s Council has known as for compensation for residents who misplaced land or property because of the development of the 51.1-hectare Thanaleng Dry Port and Vientiane Logistics Park.

President Anouphab Tounalom of the Vientiane Council, together with Vientiane Mayor Atsaphangthong Siphandone, Nationwide Meeting members, and different officers, addressed this problem throughout the seventh Bizarre Council assembly on 8 July.

In keeping with the Lao state mediathe assembly reviewed a report on the impacts of the dry port development and harassed the significance of offering truthful and well timed reparation to affected residents. Nonetheless, particulars resembling the quantity of compensation or the variety of residents affected haven’t been disclosed.

Situated close to the Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge in Dongphosy village,  Hatsaifong district, the Thanaleng Dry Port is acknowledged as one among The United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group’s (UNESCO)9 dry ports of “worldwide significance.”

The dry port was constructed below a 50-year “Constructed Function Switch (BOT)” settlement between the Lao authorities and the Vientiane Logistics Park Firm Restricted. Since opening in December 2021, the dry port has seen a big enhance in cargo visitors. In 2022 alone, it managed 49,183 containers. These containers had been transported to nations like Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and Russia.

Because the compensation problem stays unresolved, Vientiane authorities plan to sort out it throughout the ongoing Bizarre session, scheduled till 12 July.

Moreover, the Council goals to debate the 2024 socio-economic improvement plan and funds, specializing in rural improvement, poverty alleviation, infrastructure initiatives, and flood prevention methods.

By way of infrastructure initiatives, key points embody the progress and compensation associated to the 230kV transmission line set up from Pia Lad station to Naxaythong energy station, updates on a lighting mission in Vientiane, and repairs to Nationwide Freeway No. 13 on the Sikai-Sikeud junction.