The total acre of existing Muse 105th Mile Trade Zone (Trade Zone hereinafter) is 370.83-acre including the vehicle inspection area, vehicle waiting area, warehouses area. The current vehicle inspection area has only 21.804-acre even the intial allocated area was 48.56-acre, as main office and other facilities occupy more than half of the area.

Comparing with the situation in FY 2004-2005 when launching of Trade Zone, the numbers of vehicles passing through the Trade Zone have been dramatically increasing nearly six times in average, having up to in maximum of 1600 heavy-loading-twenty-two wheelers vehicles per day at present. As a result, the current vehicle inspection capacity cannot provide sufficient services as it should be, and then heavy traffic problem occurs at the Trade Zone and along the Mandalay-Muse Union Road everyday.

In order to solve this problem, the newly Muse 105th Mile Trade Zone Import Vehicle Inspection Area Development Project is duly proposed by the Department of Trade with the objectives of reducing the Traffic at Muse (105 Miles) Trade Zone and along the Mandalay-Lashio-Muse Union Road, developing and constructing the modernized trade related infrastructure, implementing of Single Window inspection and exercising the containerized cargo with e-lock system.