NESDB puts Dawei project investment cost at Bt350 billion

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"NAKARIN SRILERT THE NATION January 10, 2013 1:00 am The combined Dawei deep-sea port and industrial-estate project will require an investment of Bt350 billion, according to an estimate by the National Economic and Social Development Board. This is far higher than the earlier estimate of Bt200 billion from Italian-Thai Development, which has won the concession from the Myanmar authorities to develop the facilities. Charnwit Amatamatuchart, deputy secretary-general of the NESDB and among the officials summoned yesterday to the House committee on economic development, said the investment amount had been increased as the overall project would encompass many other projects, including a first-phase 33-megawatt power plant and a cogenerating power plant of 180MW. The two facilities are together worth Bt32 billion, he said..."

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"The Nation"

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2013-01-10

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2013-01-11

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