Skip to main content

Building programmes for Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam looks set to benefit from 14 infrastructure projects costing a total of US$9.44 billion. One of the key projects will be to improve and repair Luong Dinh Cua Street while another is for the building of the new Ha Noi Expressway-Eastern Ring Road link road. Loan facilities are being provided by the Sai Gon-Ha Noi Commercial Bank (SHB) to Phu My Construction (PMC). The construction programme also includes the Rach Chiec Bridge, five elevated highways and the Southern Ring Road. The
June 9, 2014 Read time: 1 min
RSSHo Chi Minh City in Vietnam looks set to benefit from 14 infrastructure projects costing a total of US$9.44 billion. One of the key projects will be to improve and repair Luong Dinh Cua Street while another is for the building of the new Ha Noi Expressway-Eastern Ring Road link road. Loan facilities are being provided by the Sai Gon-Ha Noi Commercial Bank (SHB) to Phu My Construction (PMC). The construction programme also includes the Rach Chiec Bridge, five elevated highways and the Southern Ring Road. The schedule calls for the projects to be carried out by 2020. The projects will be carried out under the build-operate-transfer, PPP and build-transfer models.

Related Content

  • New ring road to solve problem of traffic jams in Ukraine capital Kiev
    May 10, 2018
    Ukraine’s capital Kiev will benefit from a new ring road – Eugene Gerden writes The government of Ukraine, together with the authorities of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, plans to invest up to US$2 billion in the building of a new ring road around the city. The new road, known as the Great Ring Road, will be around 200km long, of which 65km will be of existing roads and 148km of new roads. The ring road will connect three international transport corridors that run through the territory of Ukraine, as well
  • Innovative GIS advances from Bluesky
    July 18, 2012
    Aerial survey specialist Bluesky is funding research into the development and use of a new system to map the UK’s cities and towns at night. Bluesky has teamed up with the University of Leicester to look at solutions using new high sensitivity camera sensor technology. Mounted on survey aircraft, the new system can record the location of street lights, illuminated road signs and other night-time sources of light. This can deliver an accurate resource for asset inventories, light pollution assessment and ene
  • Bidding for Uganda road connecting Kampala and Jinja
    May 22, 2018
    In Uganda bidding is now underway for the new expressway project to improve transport between capital Kampala and the industrial city of Jinja. The project for the 95km section of road is expected to cost US$1 billion to construct. The contract is being offered under the design, finance, build and operate model, with the route then being handed back to the Ugandan Government once the agreed concession period is complete. Some of the financing will be provided by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), French De
  • IRF Washington Names its 2016 Industry Professional of the Year:
    October 18, 2016
    Malaysia’s Minister of Works receives IRF’s top award. YB Dato’ Sri Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof, Minister of Works and one of the chief architects behind Malaysia’s spectacular highway investment programme has been nominated to receive IRF’s most distinguished individual honor. Established in 1951, IRF’s Professional of the Year award recognises eminent public, private and education sector professionals with an outstanding track record of leadership and commitment to the road transport industry. Over the y