Highway to project completion

April 22, 2013 | 14:37

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The Danang-Quang Ngai expressway, the biggest central area expressway project, has found the first two contractors.

Two contractors are Civil Engineering Construction Corporation No.4 and Thang Long Construction Corporation.

Last week, Vietnam Expressway Corporation signed a 3A bidding package worth VND1.416 trillion ($67.4 million) and the deadline construction within 34 months. The 3A bidding package includes building the 1,220m Ky Lam bridge across Thu Bon River.

This bidding package is one of Danang-Quang Ngai expressway project’s 13 bidding packages.

According to the Ministry of Transport, No.4 Transport Construction Company and Thang Long Construction Company contractors will have to kick-off the 3A bidding package on May 20, 2013.

With a total investment of nearly VND28 trillion ($1.427 billion) partly loaned by the WB and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the 131km Danang-Quang Ngai expressway has a total width of 26 metres, six lanes, 126 bridges and one tunnel. The construction is scheduled to finish in 2017.

Once completed, the work will help easy traffic on National Highway 1A and link political and socio-economic centres in the central localities of Danang, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai and create an international transport axle between Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam through the East-West Economic Corridor.

By Nguyen Chung

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