In the period 2020–2025, the Western Ring Road project of Can Tho city (connecting National Highway 91 with National Highway 61C) is allocated a total accumulated capital of more than 2,568 billion VND. To date, the disbursed value has reached more than 2,340 billion VND, equivalent to 91.13% of the capital plan.
Local budget capital disbursed 1,088.63/1,268.436 billion VND, reaching 85.82%. Target central budget support disbursed 1,252.089/1,300 billion VND, reaching 96.31%.
However, in 2025 alone, the disbursement rate of the project is low, reaching only 109.298/284.552 billion VND (38.4%). Of which, local budget capital disbursement only reached about 5%, while central capital reached 100%.
Accordingly, the main reasons are the prolonged time to carry out procedures to adjust investment policies and total investment; site clearance work is stalled due to exceeding total investment; technical infrastructure has not been relocated synchronously. In particular, the lack of sand material to fill the foundation makes the construction volume unable to expand to absorb capital.
Currently, the demand for sand foundation filling of the project is about 1.77 million m3, but only about 0.3 million m3 has been implemented. Nearly 1.5 million m3 remaining have not been identified for supply. In the context of concentrated sand source prioritizing expressway projects, sand prices are increasing compared to signed contract prices, road foundation filling work is facing many difficulties and there is a risk of prolonging progress.
Faced with the above situation, the investor proposed that the City People's Committee work with localities with sand supply sources to support foundation material for the project, thereby creating conditions to accelerate construction progress, avoiding prolonged delays.
At the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang expressway project (component projects 2, 3 and 4), 11 construction packages are currently being implemented, including 10 construction packages and 1 traffic safety package. To date, the implemented volume has reached about 50.98% of the total contract value of the 3 component projects.
Specifically, Component Project 2 reached 52.32%; Component Project 3 reached 55.32%; Component Project 4 reached 47%.
According to the investor, the bridge items on the route basically meet and exceed the progress. However, the route section still has some slow construction sections, mainly due to dependence on foundation material sources, especially sand.
Regarding capital management and disbursement, in 2023, the project disbursement reached 100% of the capital plan (4,364.246 billion VND). In 2024, the disbursement rate reached 99.58% (6,960.87/6,990.420 billion VND). In 2025 alone, the disbursement rate decreased to 88.92% (3,632.93/4,085.61 billion VND). Accumulated for the period 2023–2025, the project disbursement reached 96.88% of the capital plan.
The reason for the decrease in disbursement rate in 2025 is mainly due to difficulties in material sources, especially filling sand, along with some problems arising in site clearance and design, reducing the ability to organize construction according to plan.
According to statistics, the total demand for filling sand of the three component projects is about 20.101 million m3. To date, the supply has been identified at about 15 million m3, but the volume of exploitation brought to the new project has reached about 9.165 million m3. The remaining volume is about 5.101 million m3, currently the investor is continuing to work with localities such as: An Giang, Dong Thap and Vinh Long to supplement the supply.
For stone materials, the total demand is about 3.143 million m3, of which about 0.727 million m3 has been gathered and used. The volume that has identified the source is about 1.838 million m3, and there is a shortage of about 1.004 million m3. The investor and contractors are continuing to register demand in Dong Nai and Ho Chi Minh City (old Binh Duong province), expected to be able to meet when the necessary procedures are completed.
Faced with the above difficulties, the investor has directed consultants and contractors to increase manpower and equipment, organize rolling construction according to the handed-over site, and at the same time accelerate the sand filling work to compensate for the progress of the route section. The goal is to strive to complete the project according to the progress identified by the National Assembly and the Government in relevant resolutions.
