Plans for new car ferry linking Hua Hin and Sattahip gathers speed

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Plans for new car ferry linking Hua Hin and Sattahip gathers speed

 

Image: Banmaung

 

Officials in Prachuap Khiri Khan met earlier this week to put in motion plans to build a new ferry terminal south of Hua Hin in Pak Nam Pran.

 

The new terminal will accommodate a car ferry and link Prachuap Khiri Khan with Sattahip in Chonburi.

 

Early estimates said the journey would take around two hours but ticket pricing, scheduling or when the new terminal will begin constriction are yet to be decided.

 

The terminal would be built as part of the new "Thailand Riviera” project, the Thai government's ambitious plan to develop 528km of coastline including in the provinces of Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon and Ranong. 

 

It was recently announced that Hua Hin airport will be expanded as part of the Riviera project in order to accommodate more domestic and international flights.

 

Within the next five years the number of passengers to arrive at Hua Hin airport is expected to increase tenfold, officials said last month.

 

By 2023 three million people per year will use the airport, officials estimated.

 

Via: Banmuang

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-09-08

 

[Myran]

It's "Thailand riviera", not "riveria".

[BigBadGeordie]

5 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

put in motion plans 

 

5 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Early estimates

 

5 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The terminal would be built 

 

5 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

officials estimated

Need I say more?

[hansnl]

16 hours ago, Myran said:

It's "Thailand riviera", not "riveria".

Whatever, same same......

[losername]

1 hour ago, hansnl said:

Whatever, same same......

Not the same.  One is correct and the other is not.  It matters.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Is the boat shown in the header image a Phuket RO/RO (roll over roll over)?

[gaff]

55555+

 

 

[titanio82]

Pattaya taxi mafia will be happy with this new target.

[Deli]

By the time this will work, I have to exchange my Ninja to a wheel chair.

[hotchilli]

God help Hua Hin if this happens... 

Pattaya goes west !!

[AhFarangJa]

On 9/8/2018 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Fairfield said:

By 2023 three million people per year will use the airport, officials estimated.

Bye Bye, I will be moving .

[carabaothai]

It will be the end of the quiet coast of Prachuap, Chumphon..

In the future all the beaches will be crowded, noisy, dirty....

Bad news ?

[SpaceKadet]

Now it would be a time to do something about traffic congestion in Hua Hin. 15 years ago it was a sleepy town with one traffic light. Nowadays, you can't move.

[nong38]

On ‎9‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 3:06 PM, SpaceKadet said:

Now it would be a time to do something about traffic congestion in Hua Hin. 15 years ago it was a sleepy town with one traffic light. Nowadays, you can't move.

Need to send people to Sattahip, home of the aircraftless aircraft carrier and soon to be a new National Park ( aircraft carrier marine National Park sounds good). Hua Hin people welcome!

[scorecard]

On 9/10/2018 at 12:31 PM, carabaothai said:

It will be the end of the quiet coast of Prachuap, Chumphon..

In the future all the beaches will be crowded, noisy, dirty....

Bad news ?

 

In other words when is any Thai government going to get serious to promote, encourage, push the establishment of more manufacturing and other industries to create very large numbers of job opportunities?  

[Psimbo]

What happened to the service that supposedly started last year- it just seemed to fade away.

[poohy]

On 9/10/2018 at 12:31 PM, carabaothai said:

It will be the end of the quiet coast of Prachuap, Chumphon..

In the future all the beaches will be crowded, noisy, dirty....

Bad news ?

yes i suppose the towns will become busier

however i live 15 km south of PKK next to a 6 km long beach no tourists now i guess none then.... no shops no car parking/ roads  no restaurants, yes a  beautiful beach but everything a Thai would hate

[geriatrickid]

Build a light rail system first. Hua Hin desperately needs a light rail option to Bangkok. A proper light rail system would  do so much for the traffic congestion. South Korea has done it. So has Japan. If Thailand needs the expertise ask them. This could cut  travel time to 3 hours, and more importantly save hundreds of millions of baht  that would otherwise be lost to car crash property damage and bodily injury/death.