ไทยกับโอกาสการเป็นศูนย์กลางโลจิสติกส์ในภูมิภาคลุ่มน้ำโขง / ธนิต โสรัตน์ = The prospect of Thailand to become logistics center in Mekong Subregion / Tanit Sorat
This thesis has intention to study on the policy. Tendency and direction of developing logistics and communication system in Thailand. IT was done by analyzing the potentiality of geography of Thailand including to all factors which have influence and affection to capability of the competition to become logistics center in Mekong Subregion. The frame of thinking and principle theory use for learning is the policy economy theory and Public Policy by comparing and criticizing all issues which related to the development of logistics system in USA, European Union (EU), and important traded countries. It includes to the studying of the condition of logistics development, tendency of improving communication system, border trade, strategic cooperation with the countries in the subregion, and studying of the feasibility and economic policy, political and logistics improvement in China, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia. The result of the analysis discover that the potentiality and the governmental operation in the pass including the future plan will support Thailand to be the Logistics Center in Mekong Subregion, especially the transportation by road. The main reason in the appropriate location of Thailand and the government has clearly policy and operation plan with the good collaboration to the neighbor countries for both GMS and ACMECS which all encourage Thailand to be the center in this region. The problem and obstacle of logistics developmental is there was no integral governmental cooperation. It would be recommended to set up the governmental section as a center to make a plan and follow-up the progress of such plan and other projects which related to the improvement of the logistics system. Beside this, the government must urgently solve problem concern to the apprehensiveness and the disunited to the neighbor. Therefore, the government must encourage to have a close collaboration with our neighboring on the basis of economic and political principle by giving support on economy, finance, investment and transportation route for relying and sharing the benefit of one another. This will cause Thailand to be admitted to be the logistics center in Mekong subregion.
