At a recent meeting with the municipal People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong, Nguyen Tam Tien, director of Trung Nam Group which is the anti-flooding project investor, said that to date around 78% of the project has been done to ensure it would be completed as scheduled in October. Pumps will be imported into Vietnam from Germany in the coming four to six weeks.
The VND10 trillion anti-flooding project in HCM Citiy sheduled to be finished in October
Tien added that difficulties of the project related to capital and administrative procedures have been settled, except for site clearance issues in some districts, including District 4 and Nha Be District.
The project is aimed to control flooding for around 6.5 million people who live near Saigon River and some of the city inner districts.
Thu Thiem 2 Bridge which is across Saigon River, linking the city centre and Thu Thiem new urban area is also slated for completion in 2020.
The project which has a total investment of VND4.26 trillion (USD185.21 million) was started in 2015 and was planned for completion in April, 2018. But site clearance problems have slowed down the pace.
Another important project which is also close to completion is the new Mien Dong Station in District 9. The VND4-trillion (USD173.91 million) project is designed to serve more than seven million passengers per year, helping to ease traffic pressure for the city centre.
Earlier, Saigon Mechanical Engineering Corporation (Samco) proposed the HCM City authorities to inaugurate the station by late April, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this has been delayed.
