BANGKOK: Flood defences are being beefed up to protect Thailand’s industrial heartlands from this year’s La Nina-fuelled monsoon flooding, with over 13 trillion baht (US$354 billion) of investment at stake.
Sandbag walls are rising and drainage channels being cleared at the country’s 68 industrial estates and one industrial port as the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) seeks to avoid a repeat of 2011’s Great Flood.
