The People's Committee of Quang Tri province has just sent a document to the Ministry of Transport reporting on some contents of implementing the conclusion of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on the investment in the construction of National Highway 15D. In this document, Quang Tri province proposed to separate the section from National Highway 1 to Cam Lo - La Son Expressway from the National Highway 15D construction investment project from National Highway 1 to the West branch of Ho Chi Minh Road under the PPP form to implement public investment.
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Carrying out the tasks assigned by the Prime Minister in Official Dispatch No. 1136/TTg-CN dated November 21, 2023, the People's Committee of Quang Tri province has approved the investor to prepare a Pre-Feasibility Study Report for the Investment Project to build National Highway 15D from National Highway 1 to Ho Chi Minh Road, West Branch, with a length of 42 km (including the section from National Highway 1 to Cam Lo - La Son Expressway, 8 km long and the section from Cam Lo - La Son Expressway to Ho Chi Minh Road, West Branch, 34 km long) under the public-private partnership (PPP) method.
Implementing the Prime Minister's direction in Notice No. 29/TB-VPCP dated February 15, 2023, "the spirit of building bridges to cross rivers, building tunnels to cross mountains and hills, and building soil and sand to cross plains", because the section from Cam Lo - La Son Expressway to the West branch of Ho Chi Minh Road has mountainous terrain, passing through special-use forests, the proposed investment and construction plans have a large total investment of over 7,000 billion VND.
Specifically, the design plan includes 2 tunnel sections, 2 lanes, site clearance for 2 lanes with a total investment of 7,165 billion VND; the design plan includes 2 tunnel sections, 2 lanes, site clearance for 4 lanes, with a total investment of 7,482 billion VND.
According to the analysis, both of these options have a payback period of over 29 years, although the state capital participating in the project is nearly 3,000 billion VND (over 40%), in case the support capital is increased to the maximum prescribed level of 50%, the payback period is still over 23 years. To ensure the feasibility of the project's financial plan and reduce the time for collecting tolls to recover capital, it is necessary to increase the state capital participating in the PPP project to 70%, however, current legal regulations do not allow it and limited local resources cannot be balanced to arrange the state capital participating in the project, so the time to complete procedures and implement the project will be prolonged.
Currently, My Thuy Port Area is under construction and is expected to put wharfs 1 and 2 into operation by the end of 2025. At the same time, the North-South Expressway expansion project in the East, Cam Lo - La Son section, approved by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 1244/QD - TTg dated October 23, 2024, will be basically completed by the end of 2025. The implementation of the section from Cam Lo - La Son Expressway to the West branch of Ho Chi Minh Road under the PPP method will extend the implementation time.
Quang Tri province realizes that early investment in National Highway 15D from National Highway 1 to Cam Lo - La Son Expressway from public investment capital will connect My Thuy Port Area, Quang Tri Industrial Park, Dong Nam Quang Tri Economic Zone with the North - South Expressway in the East, helping to effectively promote investment capital for projects, increase attractiveness, and facilitate investment attraction.
On the other hand, the Cam Lo - La Son expressway is 98 km long, of which the section passing through Quang Tri province is 37 km long and does not have any level crossings according to the standards connecting National Highway 1. Therefore, the investment in the construction of National Highway 15D connecting from National Highway 1 to Cam Lo - La Son expressway is extremely important, serving rescue and relief work, ensuring traffic safety and order, and controlling security and order in the area when implementing traffic diversion and clearance in emergency situations on the Cam Lo - La Son expressway and National Highway 1 when an incident occurs.
At the same time, it contributes to completing the road traffic infrastructure network, conveniently connecting national vertical routes such as National Highway 1, Cam Lo - La Son Expressway, North - South railway, ensuring national defense and security and Quang Tri province.
Based on the pre-feasibility study report of the National Highway 15D construction investment project from National Highway 1 to Ho Chi Minh Road, West Branch, which has been implemented by the joint venture of investors, the Provincial People's Committee is currently directing units to research and complete the investment dossier for the section from National Highway 1 to Cam Lo - La Son Expressway and requesting investors to complete the dossier of the National Highway 15D construction investment project from Cam Lo - La Son Expressway to Ho Chi Minh Road, West Branch under the PPP method for implementation according to regulations.
The People's Committee of Quang Tri province requested the Ministry of Transport to pay attention, agree and coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance to propose the Prime Minister to approve the implementation of National Highway 15D from National Highway 1 to Cam Lo - La Son Expressway in the form of public investment.
At the same time, it is proposed that the Government support the province with funds from the central budget to make up the state capital to participate in the investment project of National Highway 15D from Cam Lo - La Son Expressway to Ho Chi Minh Road, West branch, under the PPP form.
Thanh Truc
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