HCMC – The expansion of the HCMC-Trung Luong-My Thuan Expressway is scheduled to break ground late this year, with completion expected in 2028.
A representative of Project Management Unit 7 under the Ministry of Construction said on September 5 that the unit is expediting preparations, aiming to start work on the expressway expansion project in December 2025.
It has also submitted the feasibility study for the project to the Department for Roads of Vietnam under the Ministry of Construction for appraisal.
The project has been classified as a special-grade transport project and will be implemented during 2025-2028. The total investment is estimated at nearly VND41.4 trillion, up VND1.6 trillion compared to the previous estimate.
The expansion will cover 96.13 kilometers, running from the Cho Dem interchange in HCMC to the northern end of the My Thuan 2 Bridge in Dong Thap Province.
The HCMC-Trung Luong section will be widened from four to eight lanes, with a 41-meter roadbed and a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
Once fully developed as planned, the section from Cho Dem to Beltway No. 4 will have 12 lanes with a roadbed width of 56 meters, while the section from Beltway No. 4 to Trung Luong will have 10 lanes with a roadbed width of 48.5 meters.
For the Trung Luong-My Thuan section, it will be expanded from a limited four lanes to six lanes, with a roadbed width of 32.25 meters as planned, and a design speed of 100 kilometers per hour.
A consortium of Deo Ca Group, Ho Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment JSC, Tasco JSC, Hoang Long Construction Investment Corporation, and CII Service and Investment One Member Co., Ltd. has been proposed as the project’s investor.
The project aims to ease traffic congestion and, together with other ongoing transport projects in the area, will form a complete transportation network in the southern key economic region while gradually improving the expressway network in the Mekong Delta.
