The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee began its 26th session in Hanoi on September 12 with seven bills and three draft resolutions tabled for discussion.
Many expressway and bridge projects worth trillions of Vietnamese dong were inaugurated, opened to traffic and put into operation on the occasion of the National Day nationwide.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 31 attended the ground-breaking ceremony of three main bidding packages of the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai and Terminal 3 of Tan Son Nhat Int'l Airport.
Construction of a passenger terminal at the Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai southern province and the third terminal (T3) of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC is scheduled to start on August 26.
Once all stages are completed, it is anticipated that the Long Thanh International Airport will have a capacity of up to 100 million passengers per year, making it the largest airport in Vietnam in the future.
The HCMC Department of Transport has sent a report to its People’s Committee on a plan to connect traffic between the City and Dong Nai province, including three new bridges - Cat Lai, Phu My II and Dong Nai II.
With support from the majority of legislators, the National Assembly (NA) approved resolutions on the establishment of its specialized supervisory delegations for 2024 on June 22, during the 15th NA’s ongoing fifth session in Hanoi.
A series of construction enterprises will benefit from the Government's implementation of multiple strategic public investment infrastructure projects.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 29 asked the southern province of Dong Nai to complete the handover of cleared ground for the first-stage construction of Long Thanh international airport by the end of this first quarter.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the transport sector to absolutely prevent corruption, wastefulness and negative phenomena in transport projects.
The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), on the afternoon of December 18, announced that it had decided to cancel the bid package “Construction and equipment installation for the passenger terminal” at Long Thanh International Airport.
The Railway Project Management Board is preparing a pre-feasibility study for the Thu Thiem-Long Thanh light rail project, the Ministry of Transport said.
The construction project of Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai Province is running, leading to significant price increases in land regardless of its use purpose. The precise identification of land use type, therefore, directly influences the right of local residents during land clearance compensation as well as trading.
To keep Long Thanh International Airport project on schedule, the Government has established an inter-disciplinary working team of officials from the Ministries of Transport, and Construction and a deputy minister of transport will visit the construction site weekly to push the pace of the project.
As planned, the construction project of Ring Belt No.3., which connects HCMC, Binh Duong, Dong Nai and Long An, will be submitted to the National Assembly (NA) for ratification by the Government on June 6. If the project is approved, it will be an important driving force in the development of the southern key economic region.
According to the commitment of the leader of Dong Nai People's Committee to Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, the province would hand over the entire site of the Long Thanh Airport construction project phase 1 in May 2022; however, the above progress has not been realized.
Regarding the main tasks and solutions in the coming time, the Government said that, with the development of the domestic and international situation, the implementation of the goals and tasks of the 2022 plan, especially the economic growth target of between 6 percent - 6.5 percent is a huge challenge.
The Ministry of Transport, on May 17, informed that the Ho Chi Minh City - Can Tho railway project, with a total investment of about US$7 billion, has been prepared for a pre-feasibility study.
The Steering Committee for the implementation of the Long Thanh International Airport Project yesterday held a working session under the chair of Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, Head of the committee.
The project of Long Thanh International Airport, also known as Long Thanh Airport in Long Thanh District in Dong Nai Province, is a national key project approved by the Government for construction in phase 1 with an investment of over VND109.111 billion. Up to now, Dong Nai Province has handed over 1,285 hectares of land out of 1,810 ha to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (AVC) to carry out the construction of the main categories of the project.