Container trucks on Nguyen Thi Dinh Street leading to Cat Lai Port in Thu Duc Town in HCMC, April 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Gia Minh
The street leading to Vietnam’s largest port, Cat Lai, in HCMC, will be widened from 6-8m to 30m to meet growing traffic demand.
According to a plan announced Wednesday by Ho Chi Minh City authorities, a 2 km-long section of Nguyen Thi Dinh Street will be expanded at a cost of 2,075 billion dong ($85.4 million), of which 1,800 billion dong for clearing the site. and 295 billion VND for compensation.
The section will extend between the Giong Ong To and My Thuy bridges.
The city’s People’s Committee said that once the People’s Council approves an investment plan for the project, relevant agencies will start working on compensation and relocation of affected families so that the city can organize a call for tenders to find a contractor in 2025 and complete the expansion in 2026.
In June, HCMC proposed to the Ministry of Transportation a project to build a new road to Cat Lai Port. The proposal states that the new road would connect Tan Cang-Cat Lai Terminal to the HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway, which connects HCMC to Dong Nai province, and Ring Road No. 3, which is still under construction to allow vehicles to reach their destination. and from Binh Duong, Long An and Dong Nai, without having to enter the center of HCMC.
Approximately 4.9 million 20-foot containers are handled annually in HCMC, which equates to approximately 3 million trucks, or more than 8,000 trucks per day transiting in and around the city to unload or load containers from the Harbor zone.
The Tan Cang-Cat Lai terminal handles more than 92% of this volume, or about half of the country’s total container volume.
Trucks are estimated to enter and exit the port 19,000 times per day, causing frequent traffic jams.
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The section of Nguyen Thi Dinh Street leading to Cat Lai Airport in HCMC will be expanded. Photo from GoogleMaps |
