A corner of Van Don, Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA)Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern province of Quang Ninh is set on beginning constructionof the Van Don-Mong Cai highway in the first quarter of this year.
About 97 percent of the land clearance work has been completed, with the remaining3 percent mostly in Mong Cai city, where local households are refusing to handover their land.
According to VuVan Kinh, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Mong Cai city, the locality istaking steps to complete the clearance work.
The Van Don-Mong Cai highway will beconstructed under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) and public-privatepartnership (PPP) contract at total cost of more than 11 trillion VND (474.4 millionUSD).
Quang Ninh People’s Committee has signed thecontract with the joint venture of Long Van Infrastructure Investment andDevelopment Co.,Ltd, Van Don Sun JSC and Cong Thanh Transportation andConstruction Corporation.
The 80.2km-long highway will have four lanes andwill run through the districts of Van Don, Tien Yen, Dam Ha and Hai Ha and MongCai city.
Construction is expected to be completed within22 months. Fees will be collected for 20 years on the road.
Once the road is completed, it will connect withthe Hai Phong-Ha Long and Ha Long-Van Don highways, creating the longesthighway in Vietnam that runs from Lao Cai in the northern mountainous provinceof Lao Cai to Mong Cai via Hanoi and Hai Phong. The highway will serve as animportant transport gateway linking Vietnam and China and countries in theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), helping boost cross-bordertrade and turn Quang Ninh into a trade and service hub.
The Van Don-Mong Cai highway is also expected tofacilitate access to Van Don international airport, which is slated to open inlate December.
To accelerate the project’s progress, Quang Ninh has made land clearance asub-project, used the local budget to implement the work and assigned Van Don,Tien Yen, Dam Ha and Hai Ha districts and Mong Cai city to be investors of thesub-project.
The province has also set up two working groups to remove difficulties facingthe project and help the main investor implement legal procedures.
The Ha Long-Hai Phong Expressway was put into service in September 2018, whilethe Ha Long-Van Don Expressway became operational in December the sameyear.-VNA
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