‘Ultimatum’ for the North-South highways and key national highways

The North-South Expressway component projects have been started and constructed simultaneously, but there are signs of ‘sluggish’ due to slow ground clearance and slow disbursement. If not actively resolved, it will affect the progress assigned by the Government.
Spot the delayed projects

According to the Department of Planning and Investment (Ministry of Transport), by April 2021, the Ministry of Transport has disbursed 6,821 billion VND out of a total of 42,996 billion VND, reaching 16% of the year plan. The disbursement result for the first 4 months, although higher than the same period in 2020, shows the performance of transport enterprises, but the disbursement value is mostly contract advance, the actual construction volume is not much. . The material mixing plant at My Thuan 2 bridge project is waiting for construction materials. In addition to Thang Long Project Management Board (PMU Thang Long), PMU My Thuan has the highest disbursement result of the Ministry of Transport, having disbursed VND 4,099 / 9,710 billion (concentrated in Phan Thiet- expressway project). Dau Giay ensures progress), reaching 42.2% of the delivery plan and 945 / 3,072 billion, reaching 30.8% of the delivery plan (focusing on the projects connecting National Highway (NH) 91, Long bypass Xuyen, My Thuan-Can Tho expressway, renovation of Tan Son Nhat airport runway to ensure progress), other PMUs have disbursement results lower than the average of the transport sector or delayed. For example, the PMU of Dak Lak Transport and Rural Development Works was assigned 250 billion VND, the disbursement plan registered by the end of April 2021 was 178.6 billion VND, but until now, it has only reached 15.4 billion VND. contract, reaching 6.2% of the plan or projects such as: My Thuan 2 Bridge, Upgrading NH53, Upgrading NH24, Upgrading NH25, Improvement of Highway 27, Section to bypass Lien Khuong … are all behind schedule. The road leading to My Thuan 2 bridge is waiting for the volume of soil, rock and sand to load the load. It is noteworthy that the North-South Expressway component project Mai Son-QL45 section still has many problems in the ground, the locality has not handed over to the construction contractor, seriously affecting the progress. The project is still entangled with about 2 km of un-handed ground. Other high-speed projects such as 2 new component projects converted to public investment (QL45-Nghi Son and Nghi Son-Dien Chau) are holding bidding to select construction contractors to start construction at the latest in June. / 2021; Three component projects implemented in PPP form (Dien Chau-Bai Vot, Nha Trang-Cam Lam, Cam Lam-Vinh Hao are still in contract negotiation stage, expected to start in the second quarter of 2021. “Ultimatum” Facing this fact, at the meeting of counting progress of urgent projects recently by the Ministry of Transport, Minister Nguyen Van The affirmed, did not accept the status of the project behind schedule and there will be strong solutions to rectify businesses. Especially, a number of projects invested by the locality are “sluggish”, if there are no soon solutions to speed up construction progress, disbursement of capital, the Ministry will not assign any more projects. next time. Highway 53 is stuck with construction materials. “PMU who is slow should pay early, must transfer immediately, not let the situation of holding capital and disbursing slowly. The project is behind schedule, poor disbursement is directly related to the leadership capacity of the PMUs and must immediately handle the responsibilities of the PMU leaders “, Minister Nguyen Van The emphasized. Particularly for North-South expressway projects, “Industry Commander” requires the Ministry’s management agencies to urgently work with investors, PMU review and adjust the capital of projects. , ensuring to follow the disbursement plan of the industry. Especially, the PMU of Ho Chi Minh Road and the Department of Transport of Ninh Binh urgently direct and attach responsibility to the contractors for the two slow-moving high-speed projects, namely Cam Lo-La Son and Cao Bo-Mai Son. The North-South Expressway of Cam Lo-La Son section is facing land clearance. For 3 projects commenced simultaneously from September 30, 2020: Mai Son-QL45, Vinh Hao-Phan Thiet, Phan Thiet-Dau Giay are having problems with construction materials, Minister Nguyen Van The directs. direct the PMU to directly coordinate with local authorities to come to the material mines to remove solutions for price, capacity of exploitation, service road … to ensure the completion of construction progress. “The demand for construction materials for the North-South expressway is about 60.7 million m3 of soil, 21.5 million m3 of rock and 10.8 million m3 of sand. meeting the supply volume according to the project schedule Many mines have expired, are waiting for renewal of licenses, while some private mines are not ready to sign contracts to wait for prices to go up. … These issues need to be solved soon ”, said Mr. Le Quyet Tien, Deputy Director of Traffic Construction Management and Quality (Ministry of Transport).