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The highway is to be developed under a public-private partnership through the build-operate-transfer contract format at a total cost of more than VND11 trillion (US$478 million) by a consortium comprising Long Van Infrastructure Investment and Development Co., Ltd; Van Don Sun JSC; and Cong Thanh Transportation and Construction Corporation.
The highway is to have four lanes and requires some 456 hectares of land across the outlying districts of Van Don, Tien Yen, Dam Ha and Hai Ha, as well as Mong Cai City.
Its designed speed is 100 kilometers per hour, but the investor is taking steps to raise the speed to 120 kilometers per hour, in line with a set of local criteria called TCVN 5729-2012.
The route, which is scheduled to be opened to traffic in 2021, will be transferred to the State for management after some 19 years of toll collection.
Once the highway is completed, it will shorten the travel time from Van Don to Mong Cai from two hours to nearly one hour. It also facilitates road transport from the neighboring province of Lang Son to Mong Cai, Van Don and Halong, as well as helps raise the effectiveness of the newly operational Van Don International Airport.
In addition, it will connect with the Halong-Haiphong and Halong-Van Don highways, creating the longest highway coverage in Vietnam that runs from Lao Cai in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai to Mong Cai through Hanoi and Haiphong.
The highway will serve as an important transport gateway linking Vietnam’s northern provinces with China and other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, helping boost cross-border trade and turn Quang Ninh into a trade and service hub.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Van Don-Mong Cai Expressway that the development of the route not only acts as a catalyst for the province’s socioeconomic development but also creates an important transport corridor, thereby helping improve national competitiveness, accelerate integration and development and strengthen national defense and security.
Dung also asked the Ministry of Transport and the local government to manage build-operate-transfer projects in a way that safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of the State, the investor and the general public.