Joining the delegation were members of the Party Central Committee: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha; Minister, Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son; Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi; Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hai Ninh; leaders of ministries, branches and central agencies.
At the Doc San tunnel, the Prime Minister and the delegation checked the implementation of the Nha Trang – Cam Lam project, and wished the officials and employees participating in the project at the construction site for Tet.
Doc San tunnel and Nha Trang – Cam Lam project are also places where during the “trans-Tet, trans-Vietnam” business trip in early 2022, the Prime Minister came to inspect, urge and encourage on the 5th day of Tet. At that time, the Prime Minister suggested that the parties strive to complete the project 4 months before.
Also here, the Prime Minister and leaders of ministries immediately resolved 4 proposals of investors and contractors related to project costs, technical problems, design… The investor committed to construction of the route. become one of the most beautiful streets in Vietnam, with advanced technology, quality assurance, 10 year warranty.
The East North-South Expressway Road Phase 1 (2017-2020) has a total length of 652.86 km and is divided into 11 component projects (3 PPP investment projects and 8 investment projects). public private). Currently, the Cao Bo – Mai Son component project (15.2 km long) and the Cam Lo – La Son section (98.3 km) component project have been put into operation; The remaining 9 projects are under construction.
In which, the Nha Trang – Cam Lam component expressway project is more than 49 km long, passing through Dien Khanh, Cam Lam and City districts. Cam Ranh (Khanh Hoa province). This is one of three investment projects in the form of PPP with a construction period of 2 years and a payback period of regarding 16 years and 4 months.
The project has a total investment of more than 7,600 billion VND, of which the State’s participation is regarding 2,967 billion VND. Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board (Ministry of Transport) manages the project, Nha Trang – Cam Lam Expressway Investment Co., Ltd (Son Hai Group) is an enterprise investing in the project, expected to be completed in June. third quarter of 2023.
Belonging to Nha Trang – Cam Lam project, Doc San tunnel through Doc San mountain through Khanh Hoa province is one of the important “links” on the North-South expressway phase 1, with a length of 1,480 m/2 pipes. complete parallel tunnel, each tunnel is more than 700 m long.
According to the report, up to now, the ground clearance work of Nha Trang – Cam Lam project has handed over 49/49.1 km, reaching 99.8%. The project basically meets the schedule, the investor commits to shorten the schedule by 3 months. The output of construction and installation bidding packages from the beginning to date is regarding 2,786/4,345 billion VND (equivalent to 64.1% of the contract value).
The Project Management Board will continue to direct project enterprises and contractors to execute package 1 to make the most of favorable weather, to focus on machinery and equipment, to work overtime, to increase crews to speed up the construction progress. completion of the embankment work of the bidding package to construct the foundation, road surface… to meet the overall progress of the project.
The representative of Son Hai Group said that with the approval of the Prime Minister during the business trip last year, the enterprise applied new technology to construct the divider, which is more economical and safer. At the same time, the business has also spent more money to expand the curb compared to the design, making it safer. However, the total project investment did not change.
Going along the project route, the Prime Minister was pleased with the road being formed, many sections have been completed. On the construction site, the Prime Minister praised the agencies, units, staffs and workers who have worked with the spirit of “through Tet”.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the construction must ensure quality, progress, technicality, art and environment, ensuring labor safety for workers and safety for people…
In particular, at Doc San tunnel, the Prime Minister recalled that 1 year ago, during a business trip across Vietnam, during Tet, the contractor had just started digging through the mountain with many difficulties and challenges, so far the tunnel has been cleared. The Prime Minister was pleased, highly appreciated this effort and result, noted that businesses “say they do” and do effectively, the project is implemented quickly.
The Prime Minister wished businesses to develop more and more in the direction of high technology, becoming a large corporation, doing profitable business in the spirit of harmonizing benefits and sharing risks between the State, businesses and people.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Transport to immediately consider and resolve the recommendations of businesses, multiplying the good experiences and lessons that have been proven to be true; including the announcement of the 10-year route warranty, if necessary, amend or propose the competent authority to amend the regulations.
The Prime Minister emphasized the lesson of sticking to reality; studying and amending regulations, criteria and standards to ensure objectivity, publicity and transparency to select investors, good contractors, qualified, dedicated, said to do, to avoid investor situation , the contractor has had good works in practice but is not allowed to participate in the projects with the reason that they do not meet the standards and criteria, thus the standards and criteria are problematic.
“No installation, group interests, how do people do things with their heads held high, openly and transparently, without having to run around at all,” the Prime Minister said.
The Prime Minister also emphasized, it is necessary to mobilize social resources by forms of public-private cooperation to develop the country, if only state resources are not enough, it is important to find a balance between the interests of the State countries, businesses and people, all win.
The Prime Minister also emphasized the requirement of strict and timely rewards and punishments, for good deeds must be rewarded, bad deeds must be punished.