Truck drivers use Htaw Kaw Koe road amid blockage on Myawady-Kawkareik Asia Road

Truck drivers and SUV drivers have to use Htaw Kaw Koe road as the Myawaddy-Kawkareik Asia Highway Road is still blocked. The Myawaddy-Kawkareik Asia Highway Road is being temporarily blocked due to the clashes on 22 December in Kayin State and the explosion of a bridge near the Tawnaw waterfall.
“Not only private cars but also big tractor trucks are being trapped. As it is an earth road and it is uneven, the trucks with heavy weight are not easy to drive,” driver Ko Aung Lwin Oo told the GNLM.
Hundreds of trucks, passenger buses and private cars have to be waiting to travel along the Asia Highway Road.
The vehicles heading to Myawady are being blocked at the Tadakyoe Checkpoint and vehicles heading to Kawkareik from Myawady are being blocked at Asia new road junction.
“It is difficult for trucks loaded with goods from Thailand to reach Yangon in time. Therefore, perishable foodstuffs are being sold at low prices,” said Ma Wah Wah, a Thai-Myanmar freight owner. — TWA/MKKS