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Bangkok Port

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Bangkok Port (Thai: ท่าเรือกรุงเทพ) (BKP), popularly known as Khlong Toei Port (ท่าเรือคลองเตย), is an international port on the Chao Phraya River in Khlong Toei District of the Thai capital city, Bangkok. It is operated by the Port Authority of Thailand. Until recently, Bangkok Port was one of the world's 100 busiest container ports. The port also offers a conventional quay for loading and unloading cargo. The maximal ship length is 172 m (564 ft) and the draft 8.2 m (27 ft) for the container ships.

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Bangkok Port
ถนนสาย 4, Bangkok Khlong Toei District

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ถนนสาย 4
10110 Bangkok, Khlong Toei District
Bangkok, Thailand
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Kluaynamthai
Kluaynamthai

Kluaynamthai, also Kluai Nam Thai, (Thai: กล้วยน้ำไท), is the name of the area surrounding Soi Sukhumvit 42 (ซอยสุขุมวิท 42) in Bangkok, and an unofficial name of the soi (side-street) itself. Kluaynamthai is an alley of inbound Sukhumvit Road in the Phra Khanong Sub-district, Khlong Toei District sandwiched by Ekkamai BTS station (E7) and Japanese style shopping mall, Gateway Ekamai in Ekkamai area, and is a shortcut to Rama IV Road in the area close to Khlong Toei Port. Kluaynamthai Road runs from the Sukhumvit side up till cuts through Rama IV Road at the Kluai Nam Thai Intersection. It continued to run in an extension called "Kluai Nam Thai Tat Mai Road" (ถนนกล้วยน้ำไทตัดใหม่) near Khlong Toei District Office, as far as the end when it merged with At Narong Road at the At Narong Intersection under the Chalong Rat Expressway (Ram Inthra–At Narong route) in the area of Khlong Toei Sub-district, Khlong Toei District. The only phase that is a shortcut between Sukhumvit and Rama IX is one-way road. The reason why it is called "Kluai Nam Thai", because it used to be a place for cultivating a small native banana variety called "Kluai Nam Thai". Along the lines of Sukhumvit Road prior World War II was considered a semi-rural area up till Bang Na, and most of the land was occupied by the naval officers, such as Soi Thong Lo (Soi Sukhumvit 55), Soi Klang (Soi Sukhumvit 49), etc.Currently, specimens of this banana variety are still being planted for conservation at Bangkok University (City Campus), formerly and still colloquially known as "Kluaynamthai Campus", the first campus of this tertiary institution established in 1962 (in fact, it is located on nearby Soi Ban Kluai Tai or Soi Sukhumvit 40, collectively called "Kluai Nam Thai", there are four sois that connect to each other, namely Soi Saman Chan–Soi Barbos 2, and Soi Saeng Chan–Soi Rubia). Kluaynamthai Hospital, a private hospital is also located in the neighbourhood. Kluaynamthai is considered a comfortable area to live because it is surrounded by utilities, such as condominiums, residences, schools, restaurants, shopping malls, as well as the convenience of traveling.

Ekkamai Road
Ekkamai Road

Ekkamai Road (Thai: ถนนเอกมัย, RTGS: Thanon Ekkamai, pronounced [tʰā.nǒn ʔèk.kā.māj]; often popularly referred to as Ekkamai; also spelled: Ekamai), officially named Soi Sukhumvit 63 (ซอยสุขุมวิท 63), is a soi in the form of road, and the name of the surrounding its location in Bangkok. Ekkamai is a road that connects Sukhumvit Road in Khlong Tan Nuea and Phra Khanong Nuea Subdistricts, Watthana District with Phetchaburi Road in Bang Kapi Subdistrict, Huai Khwang District and crosses Khlong Saen Saep canal in the tip phase.It has a starting point at Ekkamai Tai Junction (แยกเอกมัยใต้), where it intersects Sukhumvit Road opposite Bangkok Eastern Bus Terminal, Science Centre for Education and Bangkok Planetarium, where it is referred to as Soi Sukhumvit 63 and northward up till it ends at Ekkamai Nuea Junction (แยกเอกมัยเหนือ), where it intersects Phetchaburi Road, total length 2,524 m (8,280 ft, 2.5 km), width 18 m (59 ft). The area is served by the Ekkamai Station of the BTS skytrain, whose Sukhumvit Line runs above Sukhumvit Road. Ekkamai is regarded as part of Sukhumvit Road, just like the nearby Thong Lo, and have two connected alleys. Because it is filled with the location of offices, restaurants and cafés, pubs and bars, embassies, banks, condominiums and foreign residents. Once it was the location of the residence of MR Seni Pramoj, the sixth Prime Minister of Thailand.