Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has urged investors and
contractors to speed up progress on three key transportation projects in
order to ensure their completion by the end of 2014.
The
projects include the Nhat Tan Bridge and its link roads, the
construction of the road connecting Noi Bai-International Airport
to Nhat Tan Bridge , and the construction of Noi Bai airport’s
Terminal 2.
Speaking following an inspection of these
projects on Feb. 18, Hai said all were about 20 months behind schedule
due to site clearance challenges.
Hai asked the Ministry
of Transport to guide investors and contractors to coordinate plans to
complete the three projects at the same time. Currently, the first two
construction projects are slated for completion by September 2014, while
Noi Bai Airport ’s T2 terminal was projected to be completed by
December 2014.
Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong
Truong said that the projects are under control, with only the road
linking Nhat Tan Bridge to Noi Bai Airport slowed due to
ongoing site clearance and resettlement issues.
The
ministry could guarantee that the work was on schedule if the city
completed this process by the end of this May at the latest, Truong
said.
The general director of the project management
board, Nguyen Ngoc Canh, said that site clearance in the residential
area south of Nhat Tan Bridge and the removal of electrical
lines in Vinh Ngoc Ward should be completed soon.
However,
the first and second projects also currently lacked about 1.4 trillion
VND (67.2 million USD) in order to progress on schedule. Ha Noi City
has put up about 100 billion VND (4.8 million USD) so far.
The T2 terminal project will also require another 693 billion VND (33.2
million USD) for site clearance and resettlement, but has received
only 189 billion VND (9 million USD)./.
