Government leader visits key transport facilities in HCM City

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on August 10 makes an on-site inspection of the construction of Terminal 3 at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City. —VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang

HCM CITY — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on August 10 attended a ceremony marking the completion of a bidding package of the project building a road linking Trần Quốc Hoàn and Cộng Hòa roads, and examined the construction of Terminal T3 of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City.

The project on building a road linking Trần Quốc Hoàn and Cộng Hòa roads in Tân Bình District is a nationally important project. It started at the same time as the construction of Terminal T3 of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in late December 2022.

Under the project, invested with over VNĐ4.8 trillion (US$191.2 million), a 4km road is being built to link Trần Quốc Hoàn and Cộng Hòa roads, and directly connect with Terminal T3 of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport. It is expected to help ease traffic congestion in the vicinity of this airport.

The bidding package that opened to traffic on this occasion is worth VNĐ200 billion. The section is about 600m long, comprising an over-400m tunnel and two access roads that are more than 200m in total. It starts at the intersection of Phan Thúc Duyện and Phan Đình Giót roads and ends at Thăng Long road.

At the ceremony, PM Chính launched a 130-day emulation campaign to speed up construction so that the entire road is inaugurated on December 31, 2024.

He highly valued HCM City’s determination to disburse public investment, asking it to learn good experiences from this project to carry out others, accelerate other key projects, and develop comprehensive transport infrastructure, including road, air, sea, inland waterways, high-speed railway, and urban railway facilities, to serve as a stepping stone for fast and sustainable development.

Meanwhile, Terminal T3 of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport will be capable of serving 20 million passengers each year. The project is invested with nearly VNĐ11 trillion by the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV).

About 55 per cent of the workload has been done, with 100 per cent of raw construction already completed. Relevant units are stepping up activities to open the terminal on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the South Liberation and National Reunification (April 30) in 2025.

Examining the progress and presenting gifts to the units, PM Chính applauded their efforts in the project implementation to make up for the previous slowdown.

He asked the ACV to mobilise manpower of the relevant sides and coordinate with authorities to work around the clock to ensure the terminal meets quality, technical, aesthetic, safety, and environmental standards while preventing wastefulness and negative phenomena to put the project into operation on schedule. — VNS