Located about 75 km from Phnom Penh, the 428-metre bridge linking Cambodia’s Kandal province with Vietnam’s An Giang province, is hoped to facilitate trade between Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and the capital city.
Over the past years, two-way trade has increased at a steady annual growth of 30 percent.
In the January-October period, their trade turnover reached US$2.94 billion and is projected to climb to US$3.5 billion by the year’s end and about US$5 billion by 2015.
Vietnam consistently takes the lead in the number of foreign arrivals to Cambodia with an average annual rise of 30 percent.
