(HNMO) - On June 18, the Ministry of Transport coordinated with the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province to organize the groundbreaking ceremony for the Bien Hoa (Dong Nai province) - Vung Tau (Ba Ria - Vung Tau province) expressway and Phuoc An bridge connecting with Dong Nai province.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, representatives of central ministries and branches, leaders of the two localities and representatives of the people of Dong Nai and Ba Ria - Vung Tau provinces attended the ceremony. Son Hai Group is the general contractor of the project.
The Bien Hoa - Vung Tau Expressway Project Phase 1 is 53.7km long, with a total investment of over VND19,000 billion. The starting point of the project intersects with the National Highway 1 bypass through Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, and the end point intersects with National Highway 56 (Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province). Two important intersections will be built on the route, including the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway (Long Thanh Expressway) and the Ben Luc - Long Thanh Expressway.
According to the plan, after completion, Bien Hoa - Vung Tau expressway will connect Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay expressway, Ben Luc expressway (under construction), routes connecting to Long Thanh airport...
This new road system will form a backbone traffic axis connecting Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City with the largest port cluster in the country (Cai Mep - Thi Vai) in Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, solving the increasingly serious traffic congestion on National Highway 51; promoting the socio-economic development of Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau provinces in particular and the Southeast region in general.
Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province Nguyen Van Tho informed that the project's site clearance and compensation work has reached 90%. The province has allocated enough provincial budget capital to carry out the tasks under the locality's tasks; completed the project investment preparation procedures such as selecting and signing contracts with contractors, preparing raw materials, ensuring that the project can be implemented immediately after the groundbreaking ceremony.
“When completed, the project will shorten the travel time from Ho Chi Minh City to Ba Ria from 150 minutes to 70 minutes. The Bien Hoa - Vung Tau Expressway will also help businesses reduce costs, increase the competitiveness of Vietnamese goods, and create momentum for the Southeast region to develop even more strongly in the future,” Mr. Nguyen Van Tho emphasized.
Phase 1 of the Bien Hoa - Vung Tau Expressway project is expected to be basically completed in 2025 and put into operation in 2026 with a scale of 4 lanes. In the completion phase, the expressway will be expanded to ensure a scale of 6-8 lanes.
Also on the morning of June 18, the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Phuoc An bridge project. This is a special traffic project, helping to connect the Cai Mep - Thi Vai inter-port route with Nhon Trach district (Dong Nai province), connecting inter-regional expressways such as Ben Luc - Long Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay, shortening the distance of transporting goods to the Southwest region by nearly 30km and vice versa. At the same time, it reduces the load on the only route to Vung Tau - National Highway 51, which has been overloaded for many years.
According to the design, the Phuoc An bridge project has a total length of about 4.7km, the starting point connects to the Cai Mep - Thi Vai inter-port route. The end point connects to the route to Phuoc An port. In which, the total length of the bridge is 3.5km, the main span is designed in the shape of a sail, the clearance height is 55m, the width of the approach bridge is 23.5m, the width of the main bridge is 27m, ensuring 4 lanes for motor vehicles and 2 lanes for mixed vehicles. The total investment of the project is 4,877 billion VND, of which the central budget is 2,000 billion VND, the provincial budget is 2,877 billion VND. The project is expected to be completed in 2027.
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