According to Hanoi’s report, presented to the Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Planning and Investment, the bridge will be built by a consortium of two companies, Phuong Thanh and Nguyen Minh, under a build-operate-transfer contract.
The project will include a bridge over the Red River and connecting roads, with a total length of 13.8 kilometres, running from an interchange with National Highway 1 to an intersection with the Hanoi-Hai Phong Expressway in Van Giang district of Hung Yen province.
The bridge and roads will be part of Hanoi’s fourth ring road.
The project is designed to strengthen the connectivity between the two expressways of Phap Van-Cau Gie and Hanoi-Hai Phong, to reduce traffic towards the capital city’s inner area and boost the economic development of Hanoi and Hung Yen province.
In 2015 the authorities of Hanoi and Hung Yen agreed with the Ministry of Transport on reporting the project to the Prime Minister in order to seek investment approval, under which the transport ministry will be responsible for implementing the project.
But since then no progress has been made on the project.
At a meeting last September, it was agreed that the Hanoi municipal government will now take charge of the Me So Bridge project.
