Bangkok Deploys Trucks for 15,000 IMF-World Bank Delegates as 50mm Daily Rain Threatens Summit
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Updated · South China Morning Post · Oct 6
Bangkok Deploys Trucks for 15,000 IMF-World Bank Delegates as 50mm Daily Rain Threatens Summit
3 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Oct 6
Summary
Large trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles will be used to move more than 15,000 delegates if flooding cuts Bangkok roads during the IMF-World Bank meetings this weekend.
About 50mm of rain a day is forecast for Oct. 11-13, according to Thailand's Meteorological Department, overlapping with the start of the week-long summit.
The gathering will bring finance ministers, central bankers and executives from the institutions' 191 member countries to the Thai capital.
The transport contingency underscores how flood risk could disrupt logistics for one of the year's biggest global economic meetings.