At 7 a.m. yesterday (April 26), the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao expressway, connecting to the Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet and Phan Thiet – Dau Giay expressways, officially opened to traffic. But from early morning, the operator allowed vehicles to enter the new road. Because this plan has been “talked about” by drivers in groups for the past few days, as soon as the road opened, many trucks carrying goods were included in the list of the first vehicles to clear the expressway. It is important to connect the Southeast region with these South Central provinces.
Cam Lam – Vinh Hao Expressway opens to traffic on April 26, connecting Ho Chi Minh City and tourist destinations in the South Central region
“We regularly transport frozen goods to Ho Chi Minh City, before it took about 6-7 hours. There are many crowded days, in the afternoon from Ho Chi Minh City back to Ninh Thuan it sometimes takes up to 8 hours, it’s always haunting. Quang The road is 350 km long, but now with the highway, it only takes 4 hours to get there. It saves fuel, reduces the load on the freezing system, and increases the ability to turn around and transport more orders The most important thing is to reduce the frustration of traveling for too long on the highway. Not to mention the new, beautiful road, which just opened this morning, there are no tolls yet!”, Mr. Tien Trung, driver Bao Khang bus company, which specializes in transporting goods from Ninh Thuan to Ho Chi Minh City, excitedly said that after a journey of more than 4 hours, it “fully ran” on the highway.
If freight drivers are happy because now there is a new road and easier travel, then many families in Ho Chi Minh City consider the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao traffic opening ceremony as a “gift” for the holiday of April 30 – 1.5 years now. Last weekend, when asked if he was going out anywhere this year, Mr. Tran Khang (living in Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City) still shook his head with regret. Since the beginning of March, Mr. Khang had planned to take his parents to Ba Na Hills to cool off during the April 30 – May 1 holiday, but after nearly a month of waiting for the plane tickets to cool down, he had to regretfully cancel his plans for the sake of his family of 5. It costs up to 25 million for a plane ticket to Da Nang, as expensive as a Tet ticket. Then, when the Government decided to take a 5-day holiday, Mr. Khang rushed to check out tickets to Phu Quoc, Nha Trang, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh… but “everywhere he touched, his hands burned”.
“If you’re planning to go to Thailand, you’re already grown up. You don’t want to go, but I heard it’s hotter there now than I am. While I didn’t know where to go, I heard the news that the highway has ended, and now it only takes about 5 minutes to get from here to Nha Trang.” Now, I’ll “draw” a new schedule. At 5:00 a.m. on the 28th, the whole family will pack their bags and go back at 5:00 a.m. on the 1st of May If you spend a few million on a plane, now you only spend about a few million in gasoline, plus money for food along the way, the savings are considered a holiday reward,” Mr. Tran Khang shared.
A huge boost to the local economy
Cam Lam – Vinh Hao Expressway opens to traffic today
Previously, when the last piece of the highway connecting directly from Ho Chi Minh City – Nha Trang was in the final sprint phase, Ms. Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, Director of Khanh Hoa Department of Tourism, excitedly said that tourists Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa calendar is ready for the peak holiday season of April 30 – May 1 and summer tourism. The Department has sent a document to tourism and accommodation businesses to prepare carefully to welcome the influx of visitors, hoping that this year’s peak summer tourism season will see the locality boom in both domestic and international markets. Determining that the current high air ticket prices will be a major obstacle for the domestic tourism industry because the cost of resort tourism will increase a lot, but leaders of Khanh Hoa Department of Tourism are still confident with the target. go out. Because Ms. Thanh assessed that the completed highway routes to Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa and the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao route will be completed on April 30, which will be a big boost for summer tourism.
“Cam Lam – Vinh Hao Expressway “merges lanes” with 4 other expressways, forming a chain of 5 seamless expressways connecting Ho Chi Minh City with Nha Trang, shortening travel time to only 4-5 hours, equal to If you follow Highway 1 half the time like before, this will help increase the number of tourists from southern provinces and cities coming to Nha Trang, so people will choose to travel by car Personally, when the highway from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang is open, it is a huge advantage,” Ms. Nguyen Thi Le Thanh acknowledged.
Mr. Nguyen Minh Man, Director of Communications – Marketing of TST Tourist Company, also commented: Along with Da Nang, Nha Trang is one of the special tourist destinations that attracts domestic and foreign tourists in the Central region. , is the destination of many international air routes. Nha Trang has advantages in terms of tourism brand, diversity in tourism infrastructure systems (accommodation from 3 – 5 stars) and many famous destinations such as Vinpearl Nha Trang combined with experiences of tourist attractions. Indigenous cultural values (marine economy) with nature exploration, especially sports activities and marine exploration. Thanks to that, the coastal city has overcome the most difficult period during and after the pandemic to recover strongly from its unique beauty and excitement.
Those are the internal factors of the destination. As for transportation infrastructure, Nha Trang, in addition to air connections, is also a road traffic connection point including trains and cars. The introduction of the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao expressway will create opportunities to connect more and more tourist markets from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang in particular and the Central region, including Ninh Thuan and Binh. Thuan. This is also consistent with the current needs of many tourists when there is a tendency to travel independently in family groups, travel shorter distances and be more economical in the context of high airfares during peak season. Summer 2024 is coming.
As a locality located between Ho Chi Minh City and Nha Trang, Ninh Thuan is also ready to receive a new push for tourism in the province. Leaders of the People’s Committee of Ninh Thuan province affirmed that the opening of the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao expressway section connecting the expressway section from Ho Chi Minh City to Khanh Hoa is an important milestone event. Previously, from Ho Chi Minh City to Ninh Thuan it took 7 – 8 hours. Since the opening of the highway from Ho Chi Minh City to Vinh Hao, the number of tourists coming to Ninh Thuan has been increasing. Now, the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao highway section is open to traffic, shortening the distance to only about 3 and a half – 4 hours, which will attract more visitors to famous coastal tourist areas in Ninh Thuan such as Vinh Hy Bay and National Park. Nui Chua area, eco-tourism areas… Not only does tourism benefit, but convenient transportation is also a premise for Ninh Thuan province to confidently call for investment in key projects such as dry port projects and service centers. logistics service…
Redraw the tourism map
While the people of the South are jubilantly welcoming the new highway connecting to the Central Coast, in the North, the distance from the capital Hanoi to the “heart of the Central region” is also ready to get closer when the Dien Chau – Bai Vot is expected to open to traffic tomorrow (April 28). Previously, after the North – South expressway section Nghi Son – Dien Chau was completed, the time to travel by car from Hanoi to Vinh (Nghe An) was only 3 and a half hours instead of more than 5 hours as before. Now that the Dien Chau – Bai Vot Expressway is put into operation up to National Highway 46B, right next to Vinh City, this time period will continue to be shortened even further.
Recalling the holiday from April 30 to May 1 last year back to his hometown in Thanh Hoa, Mr. Vu Diep (Hanoi) said: “I traveled from Thanh Hoa to Ninh Binh more than 70 km in just 40 minutes on Mai Son – Highway 45. very airy and beautiful, the special thing is that being able to relax with the silk strip across the rolling mountains is very relaxing.”
According to Mr. Diep, during last year’s holiday, the Mai Son – National Highway 45 opened to traffic, extending the entire Hanoi – Cau Gie – Ninh Binh – Thanh Hoa highway, shortening the travel time from Hanoi to Thanh Hoa to only more than 2 hours for a distance of 160 km. The eastern highway section passes through completely new, unexplored areas, with countless pineapple-growing hills of local people, winding and winding beautifully. “This year I returned to my hometown again, then ran to Vinh to visit relatives. Now all the highways are gone, so I can play. Whenever the holidays are crowded, air tickets are expensive and I can’t go anywhere, I just go straight to my hometown. Okay,” Mr. Diep happily shared.
In the past two years, the Southern expressways have been promoted and accelerated, connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the Eastern, Western and Central provinces. In the north, the expressway network is also increasingly complete, gradually connecting the “backbone” from North to South. Mr. Nguyen Minh Man assessed that transportation infrastructure is gradually taking shape, redrawing the map of tourism products.
The story of highways for automobiles is the first step in a diverse and modernization of transportation forms including aviation, high-speed trains, highways and other waterway. When transportation infrastructure is developed synchronously in the above four directions along with corresponding investment in vehicles, Vietnamese tourism in particular and transportation in general will create a major turning point in competing with the tourism industry of other countries. in the area in terms of price and excitement in the tourist experience. Road tours will certainly cost less than tours using air transport, some tour routes are up to 50% cheaper. Currently, not only individual customers but also corporate customers have great demand for road travel to provinces and cities in the South Central region such as Tuy Hoa, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa… as long as the cost is reasonable. , travel time is not too long. In particular, synchronous transportation infrastructure also expands creative capacity and diversity in tourism products.
Overcoming the sun, overcoming the rain, taking the highway straight
Cam Lam – Vinh Hao Expressway is the last project to sign a BOT contract among the three North-South expressway projects in the East under the PPP method, but it has arranged the earliest capital source to deploy construction. Representative of Deo Ca Group said that the investor has proposed a price reduction plan of nearly 10%, equivalent to 891 billion VND when bidding competitively from optimizing project management and administration according to the centralized model. to reduce indirect machinery. Initially, the location of the Cam Lam – Vinh Hao Project Management Board’s house had no access road, no electricity, no water, no internet…, Deo Ca opened the road, pulled electricity, found a source of domestic water, connected to the internet, Build field offices, spacious housing, fully equipped for workers to work with peace of mind. The time of project implementation was also when the Covid-19 epidemic broke out strongly, but with the spirit of working “Through the night, through holidays, through epidemics”, the contractor increased recruitment and training of local human resources. , making efforts to mobilize thousands of personnel, machinery, equipment, and arrange project construction sites. Overcoming the “epidemic storm”, the project faced a “material price storm”. The project’s Executive Board proactively proposed additional mines for supplying materials according to a specific mechanism, combined with taking advantage of improved agricultural land. industry, using rock sources to dig tunnels promptly for construction. In particular, when constructing the Nui Vung tunnel, the geology was weak and differed greatly from the technical design documents. The road items generated a large amount of excavation and demolition of road bed stones, and “orphan” rocks appeared. .. so at many times, the project is at risk of not being completed as planned.
Implementing the Prime Minister’s direction with the spirit of “overcoming the sun, overcoming the rain”, “eat quickly, sleep quickly”, “just work, don’t talk back”… joint venture investor Deo Ca – 194, led by Deo Ca Group and construction contractors, gradually overcome difficulties, applying the initiative of the false inverted arch method to overcome weak geology. At the same time, organize scientific construction, control project progress and costs with new technology such as facial recognition using biometrics to manage personnel, electronic scales to control materials, and BIM technology to quality management, strengthening construction tasks to compensate for progress.
Overcoming many difficulties and challenges, with the spirit of overcoming difficulties and creativity, the project was completed ahead of schedule and put into operation to meet the Prime Minister’s requirements. At the same time, investors have proactively spent money to build temporary rest stops on the route, serving people for free while waiting for the Ministry of Transport to approve investment in building official rest stops.
Traffic changes travel
The beginnings of highway routes that have been put into use today have contributed to changing the status quo, developing more diverse tour products, and contributing to solving the immediate problems of the tourism industry. Transportation is a factor that has a close relationship with tourism and is a meaningful choice for tourists when deciding on the form of travel that suits their budget.
Grandfather Nguyen Minh ManDirector of Communications – Marketing of TST Tourist Company
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