Ministry seeks $1 Bln to build highway to Cambodia

The Ministry of Transport is soliciting investment of $1 billion to build a 110-kilometer highway in the Mekong Delta that will link up with another highway in Cambodia that goes up to Phnom Penh.

To be built by 2014 under the build-operate-transfer model at an estimated cost of $20 million a kilometer, it will connect Can Tho with An Giang Province before linking up with the Cambodian highway at the Tinh Bien border gate.

The ministry did not say where the rest of the money of more than $1 billion will come from but the government has been talking up public-private partnerships in recent times.

The highway, the fourth of its kind in the delta region, will have eight lanes, be 35 meters wide, and enable vehicles to travel at 120 kilometer per hour. – Tuoitre

Tags: Vietnam highway to Cambodia

Posted by VBN on Sep 15 2010. Filed under Infrastructure. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry