Government Urges Continuous Push for Export Growth

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By Natthaphon  Sangpolsit

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The government has urged relevant agencies to continue promoting growth in the export sector this year. Shippers are expecting a higher value of maritime cargo due to the easing of global cargo shortages.

 

Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul said Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has asked agencies to maintain the positive momentum of the export sector. The sector is benefiting from the economic recovery of partner countries, as well as the ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which came into effect at the beginning of this year.

 

Maritime shipments have been seeing positive signs from increasing activity. According to the Port Authority of Thailand, shipment value at Laem Chabang Port and Bangkok Port in the first quarter of the fiscal 2022 saw 3,721 calls from cargo vessels for a 13.1% increase, with a total of 14.6 million tons of cargo processed through these facilities.

 

The number of shipping containers passing through these ports during the same period was marked at 2.44 million TEU, a 5.78% increase.

 

The port authority now expects maritime exports this year to grow 4%.

 

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[ozzydon]

they can push all they like but while the baht is resisting change it wont happen