The Development Policy of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province Being to the Collection and Distribution Center in the Upper Part of the Country by Water Transportation to Link to International Trade.
Keywords:
Development Policy, Collection and Distribution Center, Water TransportationAbstract
Thailand and other countries have received an economic impact from the pandemic of Corona Virus 2019 since 2020. In 2021, Thailand has been recovered and showed economic growth continuously through import and export with major economic partners resulting in domestic transport having played an important role in supporting international trade. Current logistics cost is 13.4% against GDP with more than 50% coming from transport cost and it should plan for restructuring appropriate transport to decrease tangible transport cost by increasing proportion of marine transport which has the lowest cost. The strategic area to be collecting and distributing center between the upper part of Thailand and ocean exit is Ayutthaya province while the government policy on infrastructure development is very less by compared with other transport modes and this has been confirmed by the opinion surveys for expectation index of transport operators with low score led to the inefficiency of operation and logistics cost. Government should consider engaging transport operators for development plans; especially, the amendment on the town planning to allow more construction of environmentally friendly river ports and the dredging projects which provide the sufficient depth as required for the inland waterway transport operators in cargo carriage. These would raise up the role of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province to be the linkage center of gathering and distributing goods in the upper part of the country to the international world market as its natural location potential.
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