VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City and Long An Province authorities need to co-ordinate closely to build the Ben Luc-Hiep Phuoc Section of Ring Road 4, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong has said.

Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong tells a meeting held in HCM City on Friday (August 25) that HCM City and Long An Province need to work closely to build the Ben Luc-Hiep Phuoc Section of Ring Road 4. — Photo hcmcpv.org.vn

The project developer, Cuu Long Corporation for Investment Development and Project Management of Infrastructure, has to work closely with consultants and local authorities to complete the task, especially with respect to cost planning, he told a meeting held on Friday (August 25) in HCM City.

The 35.8km Ben Luc-Hiep Phuoc section connects the Hiep Phuoc Industrial Zone and port complex with provinces in the Mekong Delta.

It starts from the HCM City-Trung Luong Expressway and ends at the Hiep Phuoc IZ in HCM City’s Nha Be District.

The work, whose first phase will cost more than VND6.7 trillion (US$295.15 million), will be undertaken in BOT (build-operate-transfer) and BT (build-transfer) modes.

At the meeting, HCM City and Long An authorities promised to complete site clearance for the construction of Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway project by October.

A total of 74 households and companies have been refusing to move out and give up their properties, 73 of them in HCM City and one household in Long An, according to a spokesperson for the Cuu Long Corporation for Investment Development and Project Management of Infrastructure.

VNS