The contract governing the construction of the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway may need to be renegotiated as work on the first phase between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima has fallen behind schedule, a source at the Transport Ministry said.
The work, which is subdivided into 14 contracts, is only 15% completed. By now, it should have been about 37% finished, according to the source, citing information reported at a meeting of a Thai-Chinese joint committee on the project's implementation on Monday.
The meeting was chaired by Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob and attended by a deputy director of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
