The Director of the Vietnam Expressway Administration has just decided to approve the results of selecting investors for the Project to invest in the construction and operation of the Km47+500 rest stop under the Phan Thiet - Dau Giay component project on the North - South expressway, Eastern section.

According to the decision, the winning investor is the FUTABUSLINES – Thanh Hiep Phat joint venture (Joint venture of Phuong Trang Passenger Transport Joint Stock Company FUTABUSLINES – Thanh Hiep Phat Company Limited).

This consortium is assessed to have sufficient capacity and experience to implement the project with a preliminary project implementation cost of over VND 290.7 billion. The value of compensation, support and resettlement is over VND 3.3 billion.

The project implementation period with overall progress is 15 months, of which the time to complete public service works is 12 months; The project exploitation period after completing the investment work is 25 years.

The Director of the Vietnam Expressway Administration assigned the Thang Long Project Management Board (Inviting Party) to base on the results of the approved investor selection to organize the implementation of the next steps in compliance with the provisions of the Bidding Law and Decree No. 23/2024/ND-CP.

During the implementation process, pay attention to negotiating with the winning Investor to shorten the progress of public works to serve the essential needs of people and vehicles participating in traffic on the route.

The 99km-long Dau Giay – Phan Thiet Expressway with a total investment of more than VND 12,500 billion is a section on the North – South Expressway in the East. The route starts at the Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet Expressway in Ham Thuan Nam District, Binh Thuan; the end point is at the intersection of the Ho Chi Minh City – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway, Dong Nai Province. After being put into operation at the end of April 2023, the project will help cars from Ho Chi Minh City to Phan Thiet take more than 2 hours, instead of 4-5 hours as before.

Phan Thiet – Dau Giay Expressway, every day about 20,000 vehicles travel on the main route. Because there are no rest stops on the highway, people have difficulty and are stuck in solving their “sadness” and resting.

Due to the lack of rest stops on this section, many vehicles have to stop at the Ho Chi Minh City – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway to rest and refuel, causing congestion.

Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Transport has approved the construction location of the rest stop on the Phan Thiet - Dau Giay section at Km47+500, Tan Duc commune, Ham Tan district, Binh Thuan, bordering Dong Nai province.

Bidding to select investors to build 8 rest stops on the North-South Expressway The Ministry of Transport said that on May 20, it will open bids to select investors to build 8 rest stops on the North-South Expressway.