Chiang Rai border control has reported over 600 transport trucks have been queuing up at the Mae Sai border checkpoint. They are queued waiting to deliver their products to Tachileik town in Myanmar. Border authorities in Myanmar tightened cross-border movement because of the Covid-19 pandemic.


Border control in Tachileik, Myanmar are only allowing only six transport trucks per day from each side.


Phakamas Vierra, president of Mae Sai Chamber of Commerce, said that over 600 transport trucks were stranded in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.

Last month Chiang Rai Provinces communicable disease committee authorized up to 168 transport trucks from Thailand to enter Myanmar daily. However,due to the sudden escalation in covid-19 cases, the Myanmar government reduced the quota to only six trucks a day. Believing this would help prevent the spread of covid-19 between both countries.


Myanmar’s quota of only six trucks per day from each side has created a huge back log at the Mae Sai-Tachileik border. On the Thailand side alone, more than 300 trucks per day need to transport their products to destinations in Myanmar.


Most of trucks from Thailand carry fuel, consumer products and agricultural produce. Some have started to sell their products on roadside in front of Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge. Freight truck owners are afraid that their products will get spoil before they are allowed to cross the border.

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