The basic progress and quality targets remain unchanged, the PM stated, ordering efforts be made to prevent wastefulness and negative phenomena during the implementation of national and key transport projects.
PM Pham Minh Chinh required that the construction progress and quality of projects must be ensured, with no cost overruns, no corruption or wastefulness, hygiene ensured, and the environment restored.
From the start of the year, the Ministry of Transport has been pushing forward the progress of numerous key transport projects to ensure their timely completion as planned.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 16 requested ministries, sectors, branches, and localities to act on their initiative to speed up the construction of transport projects in the Mekong Delta, as expressways have an important role to play in the region’s rapid and sustainable development.
Hanoi recorded encouraging results in investment attraction and disbursement during the first half of 2024, and is poised to push ahead with this work in the coming time.
The Ministry of Transport will remove difficulties in a timely manner, accelerate the pace, and ensure substantive public investment capital disbursement for key projects in the nation’s transportation sector.
According to the Planning and Investment Department at the Ministry of Transport, it is estimated that, as of the end of May, the Ministry had disbursed approximately 777 million USD, or about 33% of the annual plan and more than in the same period last year.
The Hanoi Department of Transport has just submitted an investment proposal and a pre-feasibility study report on a project to build a tunnel connecting two urban railway lines, No 2A and line No 3.
The development investment in Hanoi in the first quarter of 2024 increased by 8.5% to 86.6 trillion VND (3.48 billion USD) compared to the same period last year, the municipal People’s Committee has announced.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh examined the projects of Ring Road 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai province, and Bien Hoa - Vung Tau Expressway on February 13.
The Ministry of Construction will issue more construction price norms for public transport projects under its authority in the first quarter of 2024 to boost the construction of the country’s key transport projects.
The Ministry of Transport said it will strive to complete procedures for 19 transport projects to start construction in 2024. Among the projects, three are directly under the authority of the ministry, namely the Dau Giay-Tan Phu Expressway, Cho Moi-Bac Kan Expressway and Lo T-Rach Soi Expressway.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked ministries, agencies and localities to make greater efforts to remove roadblocks to national and key transport projects while chairing a meeting on November 25.
Identifying transport infrastructure as an impetus for development, Long An has been carrying out many key transport projects, to form a complete transport system connecting this province with others in the Mekong Delta and nationwide.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made field trips to several agricultural production facilities and transport projects in Dong Thap as part of his visit to the Mekong Delta province on August 13.
