The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is the government ministry responsible for public works

Public works

Public works are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community...

 and transport

Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...

 in Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

. The Ministry is mandated to "Build, maintain and manage all the transportation infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

 such as road

Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...

s, bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

s, port

Port

A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land....

s, railways, waterway

Waterway

A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways can include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:...

s and building

Building

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s" in the nation. Ministry offices

Office

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 are located in Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic and industrial activities, as well as the center of security,...

.

Organization

The Ministry is organized into four directorate

Directorate

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1. The Directorate of Administrative Services has five departments:

• Administration
  Public administration
  Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
  
   Department
• Personnel and Human Resources
  Human resources
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   Department
• Accounting and Finance
  Finance
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   Department
• Planning Department
• International Cooperation Department

2. General Inspectorate

3. The Directorate of Public Works maintains a Public Works Laboratory, and has five departments:

• Roads Department
• Heavy Equipment Department
• Technical Research Department
• Waterways Department
• Air Infrastructure
  Aviation
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   Department
  • State Secretariat for Civil Aviation - Cambodia's civil aviation authority
    Civil Aviation Authority
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4. The Directorate of Transport has three departments:

• Roads Transport
• Water Transport
• Merchant Marine

Ports

The ports of Cambodia are operated and maintained by the Ministry; the two main port authorities are the Port Authority of Sihanouk Ville and the Port Authority of Phnom Penh.

The Kampuchea Shipping Agency and Brokers (KAMSAB) is an agency of the Ministry.

External links

• Ministry of Public Works and Transport
• Kampuchea Shipping Agency and Brokers (KAMSAB)