The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Prime Minister a proposal to adjust the planning of the Ho Chi Minh City – Trung Luong section to a scale of 10-12 lanes.
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The conclusion notice states: The Prime Minister has directed the Ministry of Transport to advise on investing in the expansion of the Ho Chi Minh City – Trung Luong – My Thuan expressway since July 2023. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha assigned the Ministry of Transport to study and propose investments under Document No. 6727/VPCP-CN dated August 31, 2023. During the study and proposal for adjusting the planning of the road network for the period of 2021-2025, with a vision towards 2050, the Ministry of Transport selected and assigned investors to propose the project and prepare the pre-feasibility study report. However, the implementation of the Government leaders’ instructions has been slow, partly due to the need to wait for the Road Law to take effect on January 1, 2025. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport is requested to urgently take the next steps to be able to start the project in the second quarter of 2025.
Regarding the investment scale: Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha basically agreed with the proposal of the Ministry of Transport and the investor. However, the Ministry of Transport and the investor need to discuss further with related localities to agree on the optimal investment scale, ensuring feasibility and early implementation; it is not possible to have traffic congestion shortly after construction. The Ministry of Transport, the project proponent, and consultants are responsible for the calculation and forecast data, especially the traffic flow forecast.
On the authorized agency to implement the project under the PPP mode: In Document No. 5498/VPCP-CN dated July 20, 2023, the Prime Minister directed that “… it should be assigned to the locality as the authorized agency.” Therefore, the Ministry of Transport is requested to discuss with the People’s Committee of Tien Giang province (or related localities), and in case of agreement on assigning a locality as the authorized agency as directed by the Prime Minister, submit it to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision in January 2025, ensuring the convenience and capacity to organize the implementation of the project as soon as possible. If the Ministry of Transport is the authorized agency to ensure the compatibility of the capacity to organize the implementation and can speed up the investment and construction progress, it is necessary to report back to the Prime Minister.
The selected investor must fully meet the capacity and experience requirements
Regarding investor selection: Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha assigned the Ministry of Transport to coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to propose an investor selection plan in accordance with the 2023 Law on Bidding and the 2023 Law Amending and Supplementing the 2023 Law on Bidding No. 57/2024/QH15, ensuring that the selected investor fully meets the capacity and experience requirements to implement the project as soon as possible.
The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Prime Minister a proposal to adjust the planning of the Ho Chi Minh City – Trung Luong section to a scale of 10-12 lanes. The Ministry of Transport received an opinion from the leader of the Ministry of Planning and Investment at the meeting, urgently coordinated with related localities to establish a site clearance project according to the planning scale; coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance to balance legal and feasible capital sources to assign localities to implement immediately, avoiding the occurrence of costs and convenience when expanding investment.
