North-South Expressway is about to take shape

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Deputy Minister of Transport Le Dinh Tho said that the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress determined to build a synchronous infrastructure system with a number of modern projects focusing on the transportation system and large urban infrastructure with the goal of completing the North-South expressway by 2025.

According to the road network planning for the 2021 - 2030 period, with a vision to 2050, the North - South expressway is divided into 2 phases.

Of which, the North-South Expressway project phase 1 (2017-2020) is more than 650km long, including 11 component projects, with 6 sections opened to traffic: Cao Bo - Mai Son, Mai Son - National Highway 45, Cam Lo - La Son, Phan Thiet - Dau Giay, Vinh Hao - Phan Thiet, Nha Trang - Cam Lam.

While phase 1 of the project is in full swing, in early 2023, 12 component projects of the North-South Expressway phase 2 (2021-2025) were simultaneously started. The component projects operate independently and will be basically completed in 2025.

The North-South Expressway Project Phase 2 has a total length of 729km, passing through 12 provinces and cities, including the following sections: Ha Tinh - Quang Tri; Quang Ngai - Nha Trang; Can Tho - Ca Mau.

Right from the first days of issuing the groundbreaking order for these 12 component projects, the Ministry of Transport said that contractors had mobilized personnel, machinery, and equipment to simultaneously deploy all bid packages.

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The Ministry of Transport informed that localities are urgently working to hand over 100% of the land area for the project. At the same time, construction teams are still actively implementing.

Currently, the investor has directed contractors to mobilize more than 500 construction sites across the North-South Expressway project to take advantage of favorable weather conditions, organize simultaneous construction, and closely follow the set plan.

Of these, there are 219 bridge and tunnel construction teams, 315 road construction teams. The total number of mobilized human resources is nearly 11,000 people (more than 10,500 workers, engineers, 310 supervision consultants) and nearly 5,000 machines and equipment.

“To date, the North-South Expressway has completed 29 expressway routes/sections with a total length of 1,729km. The construction progress of the expressway routes is closely following the set plan,” said a representative of the Ministry of Transport.

Since the beginning of the term (2020) up to now, the whole country has put into operation nearly 600km of the project. Notably, since the beginning of the year, many sections of the route have been opened to traffic.

Specifically, on April 30, 3 sections of the route were opened to traffic: Mai Son - National Highway 45 (Thanh Hoa), Dau Giay - Phan Thiet and Phan Thiet - Vinh Hao (Binh Thuan). On June 18, 2 component projects Nha Trang - Cam Lam and Vinh Hao - Phan Thiet were inaugurated.

The Ministry of Transport said that on the occasion of the September 2 holiday this year, two more sections of National Highway 45 - Nghi Son, 43km long, and Nghi Son - Dien Chau, 50km long, will be put into operation. In addition, from now until the end of the year, two more projects, Cam Lam - Vinh Hao and My Thuan 2 Bridge, will be completed.

With the above 4 component projects put into operation in 2023, according to calculations by the Ministry of Transport, by the end of this year, a total of 1,852km of North-South expressway will be completed.

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