Barang_doa_slae wrote:

cptrelentless wrote:

frank lee bent wrote:there is a severe labor shortage in SV
the SEZ is mostly empty because of this

This is very much so, certainly any sort of skilled labour. Last I saw they were at 40% employment in the SSEZ.

This is a big problem for Sihanoukville. The migrants workers from the most populated worker reservoirs provinces (kandal, K cham, Takeo ? ) are unwilling to come and prefer to find jobs in PP as much closer to their village to which they return every weekend and bank holidays.
Nearly all of the province villages youth, unable or unwilling to work in tourism related job has already been hired by existing factories, to the point that finding daily laborers to do some project on a land has become very difficult even when offering substantial wages.

Yet the master plans for the province development call for tripling the actual population in a very short time frame.
With the current Chinese investments boom, it might lead to massive chinese immigration and risky destabilization of the province sociology.

Established in 2008, the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) is Cambodia’s largest special economic zone in terms of size and occupancy, covering 1,113 hectares with over 100 tenants and a 16,000-strong workforce. Developed and co-operated by Jiangsu Taihu Cambodia International Economic Cooperation Investment Co Ltd and the Cambodia International Investment Development Group Co Ltd (CIIDG), the industrial park is a pillar of state-backed Sino-Cambodian cooperation.

The Post’s Cam McGrath sat down with Cao Jianjiang, general manager of SSEZ, to discuss the economic zone’s development.
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