Oil & Gas: On- and Offshore logistics challenges
Mining / Energy: Moving heavy and oversize loads upcountry
Myanmar Customs: import of capital equipment, re-export and duty drawback
Myanmar’s Ports and Terminals: realization of present shortfalls
16. NEW SUPPLY BASES
Yangon
• Pro:
– Existing infrastructure
available
• Con:
– Cost and availability of
land
– Shallow river, sand banks
– River traffic
– Distance to some of the
production areas
West / South
• Pro:
– Close proximity to new
blocks in the west / south
• Con:
– Lack of infrastructure
– Climatic conditions,
typhoons (west only)
22. MAJOR CHALLENGES
1. Maximum transport weight on the road
2. Remote and mountainous territory
3. Large rivers too deep for trucks, too shallow in dry season
for barges
4. Old / new bridges with small payload
5. Bridges with steel frames obstruct wide and high
6. Some areas not suitable to build a by‐pass
7. Lack of proper heavy equipment
8. Endless overhead cables in populated areas
9. Unpaved roads during the rainy season
10. Weather!