Major roads blocked and damaged due to heavy rain and flash floods

Some major roads in Cambodia were closed intermittently yesterday and on Tuesday disrupting traffic following heavy rainfall and flash floods. President of the Cambodian Trucking Association (Camta) Sok Cheang told Khmer Times yesterday that the main road his association drivers  regularly drive on between Phnom Penh and Preah Sihanouk is National Road 4.

“When the road was closed it slowed down the transportation of goods,” Cheang said. “When the Ministry of Transport announced that it would be closing national roads, we had to suspend travel on those roads first. We had to switch our routes to other roads and inform customers about the delay. They understood that with the floods the road condition is not good,” he said.

Thea Ny, an import and export company representative, said yesterday that when roads were closed due to the floods her company could not deliver goods to factories on time due to heavy traffic, which cost her around $10 extra in petrol per vehicle and overtime pay for the workers.

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