Asia-Pacific transport forum eyes sustainable development
Government officials are confident that the Intergovernmental Tenth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia currently place in Vientiane will help to spur the development of Laos’ transport network. The comment was made by Deputy Prime Minister Somdy Duangdy at the forum’s opening ceremony on March 14. Laos’ transport sector is dominated by the roads subsector, which represents the subsector in which 98 percent of passengers travel and 86 percent of freight is moved, he said. Road transport remains at the core of the government’s policy to transform Laos from being land-locked to land-linked and is central to both economic development and poverty reduction.
