Cambodia’s coastal region offers strategic investment opportunities under the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Coastal Master Plan to build a multi-purpose economic corridor. The region focuses on four key sectors: tourism, agro-processing and agriculture, export-oriented manufacturing, and energy and petrochemical. Investors benefit from abundant natural resources, special investment incentives, competitive labor, and access to deep-sea ports and Special Economic Zones. Strong links to Thailand and Vietnam enhance cross-border trade and supply chain integration. This coastal corridor is positioned to become a dynamic hub for industry, logistics, and sustainable growth.

Tourism, agro-processing and agriculture, export-oriented manufacturing, and energy and petrochemical have been identified as the four strategic industries of the coastal provinces. 

The four provinces jointly create a Cambodian coastal tourism brand, but each province has its own focus in the tourism sector. Preah Sihanouk Province will develop entertainment and health tourism, and resort and leisure tourism. Koh Kong Province will focus on island tourism and natural and eco-tourism, Kampot Province will focus on cultural tourism and natural and eco-tourism, and Kep Province aims to become a high-end tourism region. 

For agro-processing and agriculture, Preah Sihanouk is positioned as the processing and trading hub, with Kampot and Koh Kong supporting raw material cultivation and primary processing, and Kep serving as a raw material supplier. 

In export-oriented manufacturing, Preah Sihanouk aims to integrate multiple industrial chains and digital technologies, while Kampot and Koh Kong will provide essential production capacity to support regional industry. 

Energy strategies are equally differentiated. Preah Sihanouk will lead in LNG power, Koh Kong in clean energy, and Kampot will combine wind power with petrochemical development.