Several contractors have just signed a commitment with the Ministry of Transport to complete HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway project late this year after the project has fallen behind schedule for years.
Several contractors have just signed a commitment with the Ministry of Transport to complete HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway project late this year after the project has fallen behind schedule for years.
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| HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway project's contractors sign a commitment to complete the project late this year. |
According to the management unit of HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway, after three years of construction, the project’s package 1A has been finished while the implementation of other packages is still underway.
Under the commitment signed by the project’s contractors, the HCMC-Long Thanh section will open to traffic late this year while the entire expressway 55 kilometers long and running through HCMC and Dong Nai province will be finished late next year.
At the signing ceremony, Mai Tuan Anh, general director of Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC), said that the remaining workload was huge. To ensure the implementation progress, the contractors has to make greater efforts to cover the workload falling behind schedule, he added.
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The HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway has total investment of VND20.6 trillion sourced from official development assistance (ODA) loans.
This expressway section is an important part of the north-south expressway. Besides, it connects localities in the southern key economic zone, shortens the route from HCMC to Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces and facilitates the goods transport to Cai Mep-Thi Vai port complex.
(Source: SGT)
