Deputy Minister of Transport Le Dinh Tho has recently instructed the authorities of Da Nang, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai to facilitate the opening of a section which links Quang Nam Province’s Tam Ky City with Quang Ngai Province on 2 September to mark the upcoming 73^rd National Day.

The section is the remaining part of the large-scale Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway project.

According to Viet Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC), the project’s developer, such auxiliary facilities as traffic barriers along the whole expressway and frontage roads have been basically completed.

The deployment of the large-scale project, the first of its kind in the central region, is part of the country’s expressway network development plans by 2020, with a vision towards 2030.

Work started on the nearly 140km, 6-lane route in May 2013 at a total estimated cost of over 1.6 billion USD.

Of this, 798.5 million USD in loans is offered by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), whilst 590.3 million USD is lent by the World Bank (WB), and the remainder come from the national budget.

The expressway runs through Da Nang, and Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces.

As part of the expressway project, the 65km-long section between Da Nang’s Tuy Loan Village and Quang Nam Province’s Tam Ky City was opened to traffic in August 2017, and it has proved highly effective.