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A private-direct-investment road construction project stretching 42 km from the Lao-Japanese Mekong bridge and Vangtao-Songmek (Laos-Thailand) International Border Checkpoint has been confirmed to be over 70 per cent built since the project was launched. The developer has confirmed that the road will be opened for public use next year.
Deputy Minister of Public Works and Transport Lattanamany Khounnivong inspects the road construction progress.
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(KPL) A private-direct-investment road construction project stretching 42 km from the Lao-Japanese Mekong bridge and Vangtao-Songmek (Laos-Thailand) International Border Checkpoint has been confirmed to be over 70 per cent built since the project was launched.
The developer has confirmed that the road will be opened for public use next year.
Provincial authorities are currently encouraging the developer to complete the project as planned.
Costing US$30 million (around 240 billion kip), the project is an investment by the Douangdy Road and Bridge Construction Company. The project is of the “Build-Operate-Transfer” (BOT) model.
Champassak Province is improving its basic infrastructure, and especially roads, in order to integrate itself to regional connectivity ahead of the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which will be announced at the end of this year.
Deputy Minister of Public Works and Transport Lattanamany Khounnivong visited the construction site of the project in recent weeks. The visiting official was briefed of the project progress by the Director Generation of the Douangdy Road and Bridge Construction Company, Oudone Keodoungdy.
“Four bridges with a combined length of 250 m are planned to be built along the road and will be 16-m wide,” Mr Oudone said.
The road will be operated by the private company for 45 years after it is put into public use.
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