Services, rail freight is showing growth in the industry that lags

Photograph rail capacity at this time, can serve only a distance of 266 kilometers between the city and the sea port Sihanoukville. But the use of rail freight, which will start up this very interesting. According to Superintendent John Guiry Royal Railway, raised the long-term economic performance of the country's transport sector.

John Guiry raised rail freight growth is driven by the transport of essential goods such as rice, clothing and cars.

He said: 'In 2013 we transported container generally averages about 50 a month. This time we take an average of about 2 000 to 2 500 containers per month. Our target is 6 000 containers per month to use the rail lines to the fullest.

He explained that the current rail business income is not available yet, it is spent on road maintenance regular fuel costs and staff salaries and to make the business profitable, the company is considering increasing general cargo doubled to more cargo. The train can carry 60 tons of cargo and can drop to about 134 containers within two hours.

Besides transport, fertilizer, rice, clothing and cars, he said, the railway strengthen supply chain logistics for the company cement Siam cement Group commune in Banteay Meas local Kampot province.

He said: 'We have a train bringing coal from Indonesia to burn the factory Siam Cement boat gold. From there we cement to their warehouse in Kork.

He added that the best fuel for railroads. He said: 'We transport about 1.7 million liters of fuel twice a week SOKIMEX and 1.1 million liters, or about 5 times a week for Kampuchea Tela.

While the railroad has the ability to consolidate a number of niche still has many critics who argued that the inability not much more efficient and cost and lack of services remains on the line in a secondary option.

Song Saran, chief executive of one of the country's rice exports AMRU Rice (Cambodia) said that rail freight services rose in 1st quarter of this year only because rice exports rose 8.5 percent, and that the road iron is the last option.

He said: 'There is more demand in Q1 this year for export to the European Union and China. So the capacity of freight cars is not enough, so we have to resort to the use of the railway.

He added: 'It is not high compared with the roads. He said: 'shipping expensive than road about 20 US dollars.

He said that the price is acceptable in front but further upside is that when transport to and from the parking lot to parking lot, especially when we add value to drop goods in Sihanoukville to reach ships.

He added that there is a long complained that the rail terminal at Sihanoukville targeting sea port . He said that the 20-foot shipping containers worth $ 120.

He said: 'Railways need to build more parking and they should have their own trucks to the warehouse . He added: 'When there is no competitive service trucks from warehouses to parking.

However, the Treasury Nuon sales and marketing manager at the shipping RDL Logistics has said it is interested for the transport of heavy goods such as cement and fertilizer, while trucking services are inadequate.

He said: 'But it also has disadvantages for use rail because it is used time. Emergency transportation in case it led to a delay in delivery to our customers.