Chanthol declared that his ministry has granted permission to a build-operate-transfer (BOT) firm, which had offered a research on a potential Phnom Penh-Poipet Expressway, to carry out the study.
The BOT model is a method of financing projects in which the public sector gives concessions to a private corporation to construct and run projects for a predetermined amount of time, after which ownership is typically returned to the government.
