
The Royal Thai Navy will reallocate its budget to find a way to pay the cost of salvaging HTMS Sukhothai, after the Budget Bureau said it could only put up 70 million baht towards the 130-million-baht cost, a source in the navy said.
Navy chief Adm Choengchai Chomchoengpaet has asked the navy's comptroller to review its budget to see if it could find the money to pay the difference, the source added.