AOT: British Airways extend direct flights suspension of BKK-Heathrow route from Oct22 till Mar 23; THAI & EVA are 2 carriers offering direct flights service. Comment: # of planes in the air need to ramp up faster for a quicker recovery. Regardless, visitor numbers are going to reach 1 mn this month. BAM: to wrap […]

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BANPU in collab with SG partner Durapower & TH largest bus manufacturer, Cherdchai Motors sales to establish battery assembly plant in Nakhon Ratchasima province, target cod 1H23, aims to boost capacity to 1GWh by eo-FY26. Comment: I just wonder where they’ll source the raw materials for this to ensure competitive pricing? BEM’s retail subsidiary, BKK […]

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BEM expects daily avg FY22 MRT riderships within 300k-400k trips/day, above 200k avg FY21, sees Jul Blue line ridership at 320k trips/day, account for 80% of pre-Covid level while avg tollway traffic stands at 1m trips/day account for 85% of pre-Covid. Comment: Is the -15% drop due to the number of entities shut down? Or […]

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BA to launch Bt14.3b BAREIT, offering 1st year yield at 8.46% with Samui Airport as main asset, and plan to add on airports in Trad, Sukhothai and oversea airports. Comment: The samui airport is just a license to print money for this family. I’d argue it has limited the development of Samui. BYD sees return […]

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BKI said long Covid may have an ongoing cost impact on the Thai insurance industry as it could increase the value of claims. Comment: With less competition there comes higher prices BGRIM CODed 140mw BGRIM Laem Chabang 1 (BPLC1R) pp, 30mw power sells to authority (EGAT) under 25yrs PPA, remained capacity & steam sell to […]

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AOT: Israel carrier, El Al, requests Saudi Arabia authority to fly over its airspace to TH to reduce flight time to 8.5 hours from current 11 hours. CCET booked Bt13.1b sales in June, boosting 6M22 to Bt76.7b, +35% yoy, supported by continued demand for electronic devices. Comment: Oh, what slowdown? EGCO: Nam Theun 1 dam […]

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Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 44 mn N/a Sell(s) THB 998 mn JMART & GUNKUL – In reality this is a share swap between the two owners. So now they’re both fully vested in one another performing well.

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Telecom chess match tightens: AIS acquisition of Triple T Broadband puts more pressure on the regulator as it decides on True-DTAC merger, with the sector becoming a duopoly. Last week’s announcement by Advanced Info Service (AIS) on its proposal to acquire fixed broadband provider Triple T Broadband (TTTBB) is expected to complicate the telecom regulator’s […]

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