Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project

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The project will construct a 57.1 kilometer (km) expressway between Ben Luc and Long Thanh in the south of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), which is a short link of the GMS Southern Economic Corridor (SEC). The executing agency is the Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC), which was established under the Ministry of Transport (MOT) to develop the national expressway network in Viet Nam. The project expressway consists of a southern link to the planned HCMC Third Ring Road and an access link to the planned Bien Hoa Vung Tau expressway (see map). The starting point of the project expressway is an interchange with the existing HCMC-Trung Luong expressway, and the ending point is an interchange with the planned Bien Hoa Vung Tau expressway. The project expressway will be constructed with four lanes and the government will expand the width to eight lanes when traffic demand reaches capacity. The following six interchanges (ICs) are planned under the project: (i) IC1 with HCMC Trung Luong expressway; (ii) IC2 with National Highway 1A; (iii) IC3 with National Highway 50; (iv) IC4 with Nguyen Van Tao; (v) IC6 with Phuoc An; and (vi) IC7 with National Highway 51. IC5 with HCMC Third Ring Road and IC8 with Bien Hoa Vung Tau expressway will be constructed after the completion of the Third Ring Road and the Bien Hoa Vung Tau expressway. The project expressway is divided into a western section (19.8 km), a middle section (11.0 km), and an eastern section (26.3 km). For the expressway construction, ADB will finance the western and eastern sections, and Japan is cofinancing the middle section. The project expressway will be tolled and operated by VEC. VEC established a subsidiary company to operate and maintain the expressways through a public-private partnership concession arrangement.