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State of the Basin Report - 2003Of all member countries, Thailand alone has thebenefit of a dense network of paved all-season roadsrunning both parallel, and at right angles, to theMekong River.It should be emphasised that although the communitieswhich benefit most from river transport are thosewhich have no, or very limited, year-round access toother modes of transport, for many others, which dohave better road access, boats still provide by far thecheapest means of transport. Thus, even poorcommunities with relatively good road access, are stilllikely to depend on the river to satisfy their basictransport needs.In the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam about 73 percentof the region’s cargo is transported by waterwaysFigure 2: All-season road access for river populations in Lao PDRSources: UN World Food Programme (Lao PDR), GIS data base; Agricultural Census, Lao PDR, 1998220

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