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Stretch 13: Kompong Cham to Phnom Penh Chaktomuk about 100 Km<\/p>\n
Sea going vessels used to sail on the river up to Kompong Cham – Tonl\u00e9 Bet. The Kizuna bridge over the Mekong at Kompong Cham – Tonl\u00e9 Bet has a middle span of 200.0 m and a navigation clearance rectangle above the HHW level of 120.0 x 15.0 m. Sea going vessels cannot go further.<\/p>\n
When the wooden port collapsed in 1992, no more sea-going cargo vessels sailed up the river but recently, on 14 April 2015, a Vietnamese vessel An Trung (3,075 DWT) sailed to Tonl\u00e9 Bet and loaded 1,594 Tonnes of Cassava. On 1 May 2015 another ship, the G. Lucky (4,600 DWT and Togo-flagged), arrived at Tonl\u00e9 Bet and loaded 2,000 Tonnes of cassava. Both vessels managed to pass the \u201cshallow\u201d Sdao channel at Km 385.0.<\/p>\n
There are some 5 places where the water depths are less than 8.00m (with the view of considering the possibility of a future reinstatement of the sea going vessels up to Kompong Cham).<\/p>\n
A number of hydrographic surveys have been carried out in the Sdao canal since 2010. Many proposals for dredging the Sdao canal have been made, all with a length of about 2,800 m to 3,500 m and a width of 100.0 m (suitable for sea-going vessels of 3,000 DWT).<\/p>\n
All suggested solutions for improving this Sdao canal so far have been by dredging only. Almost every year a substantial quantity of sand\/silt has to be dredged from this canal. After every flood season the channel is almost completely silted up and the dredging work has to start again.<\/p>\n
River training works have never been seriously considered, although they were suggested in previous studies (Cambodian Navigation Master Plan).<\/p>\n
Further downstream (Km 365.0), the River splits again in two branches from which the western branch (right bank) is the main channel. However, boats with less draught can use the Eastern channel as well. The LAD is 1.5 m according to the UHA atlas. This is confirmed by the latest hydrographic survey from 9 and 10 November 2008.<\/p>\n
A dredging proposal was established to allow small ships to take the channel. However, it was clear that the dredging solution was more intended to obtain quality sand from the river for construction or for reclamation, rather than to create a secondary navigation channel.<\/p>\n
Source: Design of a Master Plan for Regional Waterborne Transport in the Mekong River Basin, Volume I, Page 34, 35<\/p>\n
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