In late March, at the construction site of the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 project, workers, engineers and machinery were busy building the packages.
According to observations, contractors mobilized maximum workers and machinery to speed up the construction progress of bridge structural items such as bored piles, pier bases, etc. Meanwhile, the road section has not been able to be implemented or has been implemented at a slow pace due to difficulties in supplying sand for filling the foundation (filling sand).
Mr. Luong Minh Phuc - Director of the HCM City Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board (Traffic Board) said that the entire HCM City Ring Road 3 project needs 9.3 million cubic meters of sand. In 2024, the project needs about 7 million cubic meters, of which HCM City alone needs about 4.7 million cubic meters, falling in the second, third and fourth quarters.
According to Mr. Phuc, over the past time, Ho Chi Minh City has proactively established a Working Group to work with the provinces in the Western region to find sand sources for the Ring Road 3 project. Up to now, three localities, Vinh Long, Ben Tre, and Tien Giang, have announced that 60 mines in the area have been tested for quality and have been included in a specific list to be ready to supply to serve key projects.
Specifically, sand mines in Tien Giang can supply about 2 million m3, while the amount of sand in Ba Lai River (Ben Tre) for exploitation is more than 10 million m3. The provinces also have policies to use this amount of sand to serve the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 project.
However, the biggest challenge now is to complete the procedures, specify them for each mine and outline a detailed schedule to deliver sand to contractors early.
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The leaders of the Traffic Department said that the difficulty in sourcing sand for filling has affected the construction items and overall progress of the project.
While waiting for the sand source to be abundant in the second quarter, the investor has worked with contractors to speed up the items that do not wait for sand such as drilling, piling, and bridge structure.
"As for the parallel road projects, we will continue to work with the contractor to proactively resolve difficulties, come up with temporary solutions, and carry out construction in a rolling manner," Mr. Phuc informed.
Ho Chi Minh City wants 6 provinces to share sand for Ring Road 3 project
Regarding this, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Bui Xuan Cuong has just sent a document requesting the Government leaders to remove difficulties in sand filling for the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 project.
Accordingly, the leaders of the City People's Committee proposed that Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chair a working session with the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and localities to coordinate sand sources for roadbed construction to serve the project.
The City People's Committee also proposed that the People's Committees of 6 provinces including Vinh Long, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Dong Thap, and An Giang agree on the policy of reserving a portion of the sand reserves for roadbed construction from the province's sand mines to supply for the Ring Road 3 project.
At the same time, the provinces also support speeding up procedures for extension, granting mining licenses, and auctioning mineral exploitation rights to promptly supply the project in the second quarter of 2024.
Regarding the sand materials for roadbed construction that have been committed by localities to be provided for other expressway projects (North-South expressway, Chau Doc-Can Tho-Soc Trang expressway, etc.), the City People's Committee requested the Ministry of Transport to support and review to balance and share a portion of the volume for the Ring Road 3 project in the direction that projects with urgent progress and demand will provide materials first. This is to ensure the synchronous implementation of expressway projects in each phase accordingly.
Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3, which started construction in June 2023, is 76km long and passes through Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Long An. In phase one, the project will be invested with a scale of 4 expressway lanes and parallel roads, with a total investment of nearly 75,400 billion VND.
The project is divided into 8 component projects, each locality implements two projects, including site clearance and construction.
As of February this year, the volume of Beltway 3 through Ho Chi Minh City reached more than 11%, through Binh Duong province reached 18% and Long An reached 25% of the volume. The project through Dong Nai province alone reached only 2% of the volume.
According to plan, the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 project will be basically completed, open to traffic at the end of 2025, and the entire route will be exploited in 2026.
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