(Engineering daily) Nguyen Anh Duong = Vietnam seeks investor of the North-South Expressway.
Nguyen Viet Huy, deputy head of the Ministry of Transport’s public-private partnership department, said government funds for land acquisition have been allocated and local authorities would be responsible for acquiring land.
Vietnam's rapid economic growth in recent years has put pressure on its aging infrastructure, and it is in the process of upgrading it.
They are expected to cost $5.06 billion, with $2.36 billion coming from the government.
Together, they will stretch 654 kilometers as part of the 2,000-kilometer expressway from Nam Dinh near Hanoi to Vinh Long Province to the southwest of Ho Chi Minh City.
The expressway is scheduled to be finished in 2025.
