PM kicks off construction of HCM City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway

(ĐN) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung kicked off the construction of the 55-km project from HCM City via the Long Thanh international airport to Dau Giay in Dong Nai province on Oct. 3.

(ĐN) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung kicked off the construction of the 55-km project from HCM City via the Long Thanh international airport to Dau Giay in Dong Nai province on Oct. 3. This is the first section of the North-South Expressway project.

Ground-breaking ceremony HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay section of North-South expressway

Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City, PM Dung said the project is an important section that connects the East-West boulevard and the HCM City-Trung Luong expressway. When completed, the section would facilitate socio-economic development in HCM City , Dong Nai province and the whole eastern southern key economic triangle.

The HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay section will have four lanes in the first phase and eight lanes in the second phase in the 24-km An Phu-Long Thanh section or six lanes in the 31-km Long Thanh-Dau Giay section.

It is capitalised at 932.4 million USD, with 516.5 million USD as loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), 410.2 million USD as loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and 5.7 million USD contributed by the Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC).

Reported by T.N