Cambodia's socio-economic landscape underwent significant transformation, shifting from an agriculture- based economy to one focused on industry and services, leading to rapidly increasing trade and transport volumes. To support sustainable and inclusive high economic growth, the Royal Government of Cambodia formulated the Cambodian Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025 (IDP), which highlighted the need for a logistics master plan to create an efficient and competitive platform for trade facilitation. However, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) faced challenges including a lack of skilled human resources for logistics management, insufficient database systems, a lack of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, and limited financial and technical support for formulating a logistics database system. Read more...
