Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 25 inspected the progress of a 40.2-km expressway project connecting the two northern provinces of Tuyen Quang and Phu Tho, which is funded with the central and local budgets.
An electronic toll collection (ETC) system has been launched on Noi Bai-Lao Cai Expressway, the first route excluded in the North-South Expressway and the first connecting the capital city with the Northwestern region to operate the system.
The State-owned Vietnam Expressway Corporation will implement automatic non-stop toll collection (or ETC) on all five expressways under its management across the country by the third quarter this year.
Four Vietnamese men transporting 10 Chinese who illegally entered Vietnam through the border were arrested by police in the northern border province of Lao Cai on July 27.
The Government has approved the construction of an expressway connecting the northern provinces of Tuyen Quang and Phu Tho under the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) format after three years of delays.
Traffic police have kick-started a nationwide campaign to inspect coaches, passenger cars, container trucks and motorbikes in an effort to prevent serious accidents.
The Ministry of Finance and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on March 5 signed a loan worth over 188 million USD for a transport connectivity project in northern mountainous provinces.
According to the Vietnam Expressway Corporation, toll collection and supervision is carried out according to regulations, and the toll revenue of expressways is reported to State management agencies.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan worth 188 million USD to improve and upgrade 198 km of roads in Vietnam’s mountainous northwest region.
Total projected length of Vietnam’s expressway system by 2030 is set to stretch from the initial 6,400 km to more than 7,000km, as the Ministry of Transport is mulling adding several routes.
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Do Ba Ty on July 3 met voters in Duong Quy commune, Van Ban district, the northern province of Lao Cai, the hardest-hit locality in the recent floods.
With financial aid from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other sponsors, the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Programme has supported the region to carry out a number of priority projects with notable outcomes recorded in the field of transport.
The Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, the Steering Committee for Northwestern Region and the Transport Ministry held a conference in Hanoi on July 20 to discuss developing transport infrastructure in the northwest.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc pressed a button to launch a project to connect the Noi Bai-Lao Cai expressway with touristy Sa Pa town in northern Lao Cai province on February 27.
The northern midland province of Phu Tho reeled in 17.2 trillion VND (781 million USD) of investment this year, becoming one of the top five localities in terms of development investment attraction.
The first two lanes of the last remaining segment of the Noi Bai-Lao
Cai Expressway, from Binh Minh ward in the bordering northern city of
Lao Cai to the Kim Thanh International Border Gate - the gateway to
China’s Yunnan province - opened to traffic on May 18.
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