Bangkok Port

In 1934 they contacted the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to advise on the construction of a modern harbour.

A royal decree expropriated land for the construction of a port in Bangkok on 6 August 1935.

At the end of the war, in 1945 the pier was only 1,500 m (4,920 ft) long and work on the construction of the port resumed with a loan from the World Bank.

[3] The Bangkok Port area is on the east side of the Chao Phraya River in Khlong Toei District occupying over 900 acres (3.6 km2).

To meet growing traffic, Kloeng Toey Port saw massive expansion in the early 1980s.

Although the port's flow of imports has gone down by 40 percent, post-1995 export cargo volume has remained at a satisfactory level.