Ministry of Transport has held a meeting to discuss about the implementation progress of realising the construction project of Co Chien Bridge, located in National Highway No 60 connecting two provinces of Tra Vinh and Ben Tre. The project was supposed to be carried out under BOT method.
Vietnam Road Administration has reported completing the selection of eight investors to participate in realising the construction project. These investors included the Traffic Work Engineering Corporations No 1,4,5,6, and 8, Rach Mieu Bridge BOT Co Ltd, Vietnam Development Bank and PetroVietnam Construction Corp.
The prime minister has recently approved the ministry's suggestion about using state budget of about 1.79 trillion dong for construction works on bridges on the access roads to the main bridge; while the functional authorities of two provinces would pay ground clearance cost of about 410 billion dong, and the investors of 1.7 trillion dong.
The construction on Co Chien Bridge included two access roads with total length of 15.7 kilometres and main bridge of 1.6 kilometres. The project's total investment capital was estimated at 4.826 trillion dong, in which the investment capital for the first phase counted for 3.9 trillion dong.
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