BANGKOK, Jan 14 — Thailand's state-run Transport Company signed a Thailand-Laos bus service agreement for the sixth bilateral route between Bangkok and Vientiane.
Wuthichart Kalyanamitra, President of the Transport Company, today signed the agreement with Jitprasong Luangdetmeechai, director of the Jitprasong Yodniyom Company.
Transport Company has operated buses on the Bangkok-Vientiane route since Oct 1, 2012.
The 648 kilometre trip takes 10 hours at a fare of Bt900.
The service was earlier governed by a contract with a Lao transport state enterprise on the condition that each side operated one trip daily.
Last September the Lao government proposed terminating the contract because it had no buses with the same standard as the Transport Company.
The Lao government asked Transport Co to seal the deal with the Jitprasong Yodniyom Company instead.
Mr Wuthichart said that since 2004 the Transport Co had operated regular bus services to Laos and Cambodia on 14 routes including routes from Bangkok to Pakse, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh and received a warm welcome from travelers. (MCOT online news)
