According to the Pre-Feasibility Study Report proposed by the Deo Ca - CII - Tasco Joint Venture, the Project will invest in expanding about 98 km of the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan Expressway under the PPP method.
Prime Minister urges construction of Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway to start in the second quarter of 2025
According to the Pre-Feasibility Study Report proposed by the Deo Ca - CII - Tasco Joint Venture, the Project will invest in expanding about 98 km of the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan Expressway under the PPP method.
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| An existing section of the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong expressway. |
The Government Office has just issued Official Dispatch No. 1216/VPCP - CN to the Ministry of Transport; Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; People's Committees of Tien Giang and Long An provinces to convey the Prime Minister's direction on implementing the project to expand the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway under the PPP method.
Specifically, the Prime Minister agreed with the proposal and recommendation of the Ministry of Transport in Official Dispatch No. 595/BGTVT-KHĐT dated January 16, 2025). The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Transport and relevant ministries and branches to promptly start the Project in the second quarter of 2025, avoiding negativity and waste during the implementation process.
It is known that in Official Dispatch No. 595, the Ministry of Transport proposed that the Government leaders assign this ministry as the competent authority to implement the PPP Project to invest in expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan Expressway to have a basis for organizing the appraisal and approval of the Pre-Feasibility Study Report in January 2025 and soon start the Project.
Previously, in Notice No. 558/TB-VPCP dated December 17, 2024, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha directed the Ministry of Transport to discuss with the People's Committee of Tien Giang province (or related localities). In case of agreement on which locality will be assigned as the competent authority according to the Prime Minister's direction, it will be submitted to the head of the Government for consideration and decision in January 2025, in the spirit of ensuring convenience and capacity to organize and implement the Project in the soonest time.
"In case the Ministry of Transport acts as the competent PPP agency to invest in expanding the expressway to ensure appropriate implementation capacity and to speed up the investment and construction progress, it is necessary to report back to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision," Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha directed.
In order to implement the above request, at the end of December 2025, Minister of Transport Tran Hong Minh personally signed an official dispatch to the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the People's Committees of the two provinces: Long An and Tien Giang regarding the assignment of competent authorities to implement the PPP project to invest in expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport requests the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the People's Committees of Long An and Tien Giang provinces to give their opinions on accepting the task of being the competent authority to organize the implementation of the Project. In case they do not accept the task of being the competent authority, the Ministry of Transport requests the above 3 localities to give their opinions on assigning an agency to be the competent authority to implement the Project.
As of January 16, the Ministry of Transport has received all three responses from localities regarding the determination of the competent authority for the PPP project to invest in expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway.
Basically, all three localities that the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway passes through do not want to "shoulder" the Project and agree that the Ministry of Transport will play the role of the competent authority for the expansion of the above-mentioned vital expressway to the West.
In Official Dispatch No. 595, Minister Tran Hong Minh said that according to the provisions of the law on public-private partnership and the law on roads, the investment in expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway under the PPP method is under the authority of the Ministry of Transport; if necessary, at the request of the locality, the Prime Minister can assign the locality to be the competent authority.
In the context of urgent progress requirements, the investment policy must be approved and the project must be started in the second quarter of 2025 under the direction of the Government leaders. The plan for the Ministry of Transport to act as the competent authority to implement the project will help speed up the implementation progress because there is no need to carry out the procedure of agreement between localities to report to the Prime Minister to decide to assign a locality as the competent authority (expected to take at least 1 to 2 months).
Another advantage is that the advisory agencies of the Ministry of Transport have coordinated, supported, and accompanied the investor in the process of proposing the project to prepare the Pre-Feasibility Study Report, so the time for appraisal and approval of the Pre-Feasibility Study Report and the Project Feasibility Study Report can be shortened.
According to the latest proposal of the investor, the PPP project to invest in expanding the 98 km long Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway is divided into 2 component projects.
Component project 1: investment in expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway under the PPP method, including expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong expressway section to 8 lanes and 2 emergency lanes; expanding the Trung Luong - My Thuan expressway section (including the My Thuan 2 bridge expressway section) to 6 lanes and 2 emergency lanes. The total investment is 42,063 billion VND.
Component project 2: Site clearance for the completion phase of 10-12 lanes of the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong expressway section under the public investment method with a total investment of VND 6,968 billion.
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