An Giang strives to complete the expressway soon

With determination and responsibility, contractors urgently organized many construction teams to "overcome the sun, overcome the rain", "3 shifts, 4 teams" at the construction site, to ensure the construction progress of the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang Expressway Component 1 Project. An Giang provincial leaders focused on solutions to ensure the supply of sand and stone materials for the project, contributing to thoroughly solving difficulties, further accelerating progress, and implementing the peak emulation period "500 days and nights to complete 3,000km of expressway" as launched by the Prime Minister.

An Giang•24/03/2025

Construction on highway site

Reporting to the Prime Minister, Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the An Giang Provincial People's Committee Ho Van Mung said: "In An Giang, the progress (of all 4 construction packages) of Component Project 1 of the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang Expressway Construction Investment Project has so far reached 46.73/46.44%, exceeding the planned progress by about 0.29%. The project's disbursement progress has so far reached 276.2/3,449 billion VND, reaching 8%. The province has handed over 100% of the site.

Regarding the supply of sand materials for the expressway, Component Project 2 (Can Tho City) has supplied 1,209,476/3,285,438m ³ of sand to the project; Component Project 3 (Hau Giang Province) has supplied 785,713/2,625,631m ³ ; Component Project 1 (An Giang Province) has supplied 3,378,901/9,321,000m ^3. Can Tho - Ca Mau Expressway has supplied 4,191,065/6,761,735m ³ of sand. The Provincial People's Committee has resolutely and focused on implementing to supplement the 3 million m ³ of sand missing for Component Project 1. Up to now, the contractor has completed the survey and exploration of 2 mines on Hau River (Chau Phu District) and Phu Tan District. On March 17, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting to complete the procedures for issuing a certificate of mineral recovery with the remaining volume of ³ million m3 of sand, ensuring enough sand for Component Project 1. In March 2025, it will be exploited to speed up construction progress.

Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Ho Van Mung said that in the work of supplying construction materials for the expressway project, the Provincial People's Committee strictly implemented the instructions of the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha. The Provincial People's Committee met and agreed to adjust the reserve of the license to exploit Andezite Nui Dai stone quarry of Antraco Joint Venture Company Limited, in order to mobilize the reserve of ^2,959,956m3 of stone. The Provincial People's Committee met to complete the procedures to adjust the mining license for Andezite Nui Dai stone quarry. In March 2025, exploitation will be carried out to provide stone for the expressway and other State budget projects, and natural disaster recovery projects in the province.

The province has drastically implemented solutions to ensure the supply of sand and stone materials for the project. The project management board and contractors have been asked to focus on implementing solutions in "3 shifts, 4 shifts", and provincial leaders have regularly inspected and urged contractors to achieve progress exceeding 0.29%. In the coming time, the progress will be faster, because the province has removed difficulties in sand materials, providing them directly to contractors according to the Prime Minister's direction. Particularly, regarding the difficulty in sand reserves, the provincial People's Committee has held a meeting to approve the adjustment of the stone mining license to ensure that the province's 3 million ^m3 of stone that is lacking will be provided directly to contractors.

Regarding technical solutions, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the province has directed and the Project Management Board has worked with contractors to find technical solutions, striving to complete Component Project 1 in 2025. Regarding the current difficulty in reserves, the Provincial People's Committee has directed the Department of Agriculture and Environment to send a document to contractors requesting a report requesting to increase capacity not exceeding 5% according to the National Assembly resolution. Currently, only waiting for contractors to submit a document requesting to increase capacity by 5%, the Provincial People's Committee will decide to increase capacity, so the source of materials is resolved, along with construction solutions will speed up the progress of Component Project 1 through An Giang province. Reporting to the Prime Minister, the 4 contractors implementing Component Project 1 of the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang Expressway Project through An Giang province also committed to the Prime Minister to make efforts to mobilize material resources, human resources, construction solutions, and speed up to ensure progress.

Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of An Giang Provincial Party Committee Le Hong Quang inspected the progress of the Chau Doc-Can Tho-Soc Trang Expressway Project.

The Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang Expressway Construction Investment Project Phase 1 is 188.2km long, with a total investment of VND44,691 billion; the progress is basically required to complete the entire route in 2026 and put the entire project into operation in 2027. According to the Ministry of Construction, site clearance work has so far completed 99% of the volume. Regarding construction, Project 1 has reached 46% of the contract value, meeting the output requirements. Project 2 has reached 25% of the contract value, 15% behind schedule. Project 3 has reached 35% of the contract value, meeting the output requirements. Project 4 has reached 25% of the contract value, 8% behind schedule. The Prime Minister has directed strongly, and localities have completed the licensing procedures for exploitation of the project for 22.6/29 million ^m3 of demand. However, the current mining capacity of the mines is only about ^24,000m3 /day, which can be increased to ^29,000m3 /day. The mining capacity above is still lower than the required capacity.

Urging the construction progress, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that by 2030, 1,200km of expressways must be built in the Mekong Delta region, of which 400-600km must be completed in this term alone. Of which, the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang expressway is a vital expressway passing through 4 localities in the dynamic region of the Southwest, along with a series of other strategic transport infrastructure projects in the region... When this expressway project is completed, it will contribute to removing bottlenecks in the transport infrastructure of the Mekong Delta, which is of great significance to the region in terms of socio-economic development, production - business, social security, national defense - security. Therefore, the Prime Minister requested Party committees, authorities, and important agencies of the political system in localities, especially the secretaries and chairmen of the 4 localities, to take action more resolutely, strongly, and effectively, to do their best, and to coordinate more closely and synchronously.

Contractors must be more proactive and flexible; uphold a sense of responsibility, especially in resolving issues related to materials; and avoid loss or waste of State and People's assets. The Prime Minister requested to accelerate the progress and complete the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang expressway project by June 2026, while ensuring quality. Contractors continue to promote the construction spirit of "overcoming the sun and rain", "working overtime", "eating and sleeping quickly", "working at night when there is not enough work during the day", "working in 3 shifts, 4 shifts".

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