In July 2023, the Ministry of Transport (now the Ministry of Construction) coordinated with the Hanoi People's Committee to start the Duong River waterway upgrade project. The project includes a railway bridge and a road bridge, replacing the current Duong bridge.
The project has a total investment of VND 1,848.62 billion, of which the cost of site clearance (GPMB) for phase 1 is VND 650.8 billion from the State budget, assigned to the Railway Project Management Board (Ministry of Construction) as the investor.
Speaking to Lao Dong Newspaper reporter, Mr. Mai Xuan Tan, Director of the Duong River Waterway Upgrade Project (under the Railway Project Management Board) said that the road bridge is currently stuck with the entire site clearance on both sides of the bridge in Viet Hung ward and Phu Dong commune.
Regarding construction work, the contractor is implementing the T3 and T4 tower items under the river and waiting for the site to construct on the shore.
For the railway bridge, the contractor has completed the installation of 2 main girders and temporarily suspended construction from May to the end of October to ensure regulations on the Law on Dikes during the rainy and stormy season. Therefore, the bypass beams will be implemented from November.
Previously, in August 2025, the Ministry of Construction issued a document requesting the Hanoi People's Committee to urgently complete the site clearance for the Duong River waterway upgrade project.
According to the plan, the project's site clearance will be completed and the construction site handed over in the fourth quarter of 2024. The Railway Project Management Board (project investor) has been very proactive, actively coordinating and working with units related to local site clearance work to speed up site clearance work.
However, up to now, the project has only been handed over the site within the existing railway, public land in the existing Duong River bed area and 16/141 households in the old Long Bien District dyke safety corridor (about 0.4/4.96 ha, reaching about 8%); the remaining volume of land has not been cleared (accounting for over 92%), the relocation of technical infrastructure works has not been carried out more than 8 months behind the direction of the Hanoi People's Committee; the site has not been handed over according to the request of the Hanoi People's Committee on May 30, 2025.
The delay in handing over the site puts the project at high risk of not being completed in 2025 as planned.
