Bidding documents for My Thuan – Can Tho highway to be sold

ABO/VNA – The Transport Ministry’s Thang Long project management board will sell bidding documents for My Thuan – Can Tho highway project from April 15 to May 15.

Trung Luong-Ho Chi Minh city highway. Illustrative image: HUU CHI

Nguyen Danh Huy, head of the Public-Private Partnership Department, said the ministry has decided to raise investors’ capital to 20 percent of the total.

The 23.6m-long My Thuan – Can Tho highway will start at the National Road No. 80 intersection in the southern province of Vinh Long and end at Cha Va – National Road No.1 intersection.

During the first stage, the highway will be built with four lanes and designed vehicle speed of 100km per hour. The Build-Operate-Transfer project will be carried out in public-private partnership model at a total cost of over 5.4 trillion VND (211.7 million USD).

On March 29, the Government Office issued Notice No.2893/VPCP-CN on accelerating the progress of investment projects, including asking the Transport Ministry to take synchronous measures to build roads in the Mekong Delta, firstly Trung Luong – My Thuan and My Thuan – Can Tho highways.

(Source: VNA)