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Funding required for Vietnam expressways

Funding is required for the construction of 18 expressway projects in Vietnam. The projects will be worth a total of US$8.32 billion. Vietnam's Ministry of Transport is approaching various investors with a view to raising the necessary capital for the works. Of these projects 11 are planned to be carried out under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) and build-transfer (BT) models. The only project to be fully funded using state sources will be the Cam Lo-La Son BT expressway. The overall length of the projects
March 14, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Funding is required for the construction of 18 expressway projects in Vietnam. The projects will be worth a total of US$8.32 billion. Vietnam's Ministry of Transport is approaching various investors with a view to raising the necessary capital for the works. Of these projects 11 are planned to be carried out under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) and build-transfer (BT) models. The only project to be fully funded using state sources will be the Cam Lo-La Son BT expressway. The overall length of the projects being carried out under the BOT model is 541km. Meanwhile the length for the BT format projects will be 102km.

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