Vietnam's transport infrastructure is growing day by day. Illustration

In 2022, the Ministry of Transport is expected to start construction of 38 projects, complete 30 projects and focus on disbursement, speeding up the preparation for investment in key national projects, such as completing 5,000km of high-speed roads. speed; develop 2 gateway ports in combination with international transshipment; kick off a number of bidding packages under the high-speed railway project; completed Long Thanh airport project...

Facing a huge amount of work with many challenges and difficulties waiting ahead, the big challenge for the next stage of transport infrastructure development goals is the capital source, when many projects are in progress. there is no money to deploy. Only the East North-South Expressway, the total investment is nearly 147,000 billion VND; the total capital need of the high-speed railway project for the period 2021-2030 needs to be 112,325 billion dong...

The Ministry of Transport has determined that mobilizing the participation of the people to develop transport infrastructure is one of the key solutions in the coming time. Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport advocates diversifying and mobilizing all resources, including capital from the people, to invest in the development of transport infrastructure in the context of large investment needs and limited state budget. .

Experts say that, in recent times, the attraction of socialized capital for transport infrastructure has slowed down at times. The model of private companies building capital through bidding, then exploiting and operating for a period of time and transferring to the State (BOT) has previously revealed limitations, financial risks and risks. unpopular with the people.

Therefore, the problem of mobilizing social resources through public-private partnership (PPP) is one of the solutions we can activate. In order to remove the prejudices about BOT that are discouraging potential investors, Vietnam is facing the challenge of removing "barriers" and "knots" so that the PPP method is really attractive. There are institutions, capital markets, equality between the State and investors, transparency in investor selection...

Accordingly, the Government needs to issue specific mechanisms and policies to mobilize social resources as well as State resources for the goal of completing a large volume of expressways in a short time. For example, the State's capital contribution ratio should not be rigidly applied like the current PPP Law.

In addition, many experts noted that at present, we are only interested in quickly putting the project into use without focusing on putting new technology into construction. New technologies in construction will contribute to shortening the construction schedule, improving energy and reducing construction costs. If you do not update and apply new technology in each project, infrastructure development will be set back in the 4.0 technology era and the consequences on the ecological environment.

Obviously, in order to speed up the construction progress and ensure the completion of key projects as planned, the transport sector needs to strengthen inspection and urge investors and project management boards on the progress of implementation. , Disbursement; immediately handle problems related to the progress and quality of the works; adjust and improve the capacity of investors, design consultancy and supervision organizations. At the same time, coordinate with ministries, branches and localities to focus on handling and removing difficulties and obstacles in projects, especially site clearance and technical infrastructure relocation.

Hoang Lam