Ba Ria-Vung Tau calls for expy project to be sped up

At a meeting between the provincial leaders and relevant departments, the department proposed three solutions: linking the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway with Cai Mep-Thi Vai Port, with National Highway 55 in Ba Ria City or with Vung Tau City. The project may be developed under either the public-private partnership or build-operate-transfer formats.

Participating departments and agencies and the provincial leaders said that it was necessary to choose a solution that allows the expressway to stretch to National Highway 55 to ease rising traffic congestion faced on National Highway 51.

Further, the solution should spur the development of industrial zones in the Dat Do and Chau Duc districts in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province and boost the tourism sector in the towns of Long Hai and Phuoc Hai and in Xuyen Moc District.

The Ministry of Transport had earlier planned to construct the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau expressway with a starting point in Bien Hoa City, but that plan has yet to be deployed. As a result, the provincial Department of Transport has suggested selecting a starting point along the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway.

The Bien Hoa-Vung Tau expressway is one of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province’s key projects, featuring high regional connectivity and fostering the growth of the province’s deepwater container terminal. As such, the province wants the project to pick up steam.

Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province will work diligently with Dong Nai Province to reach an agreement before proposing the prime minister and Ministry of Transport permit the province to act as the main investor for the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau expressway project.