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Specifically, the Government Office has just sent an official letter to the Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the Ministry of Finance to convey the opinion of Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on the extension of the project implementation period. Consequently, it is not only allowed to extend the completion time until March 2021, the project will also extend the withdrawal period of the additional loan agreement worth 1.598 billion yuan.
The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance the main responsibility and coordination with the Ministry of Transport and relevant agencies in the implementation of the extension procedures in accordance with the regulations.
Previously, the Ministry of Transportation sent a written request to the Prime Minister for the extension of the project implementation period and the capital withdrawal deadline of the 1.598 million yuan additional loan agreement for the Hanoi urban railway project. . Cat Linh – Ha Dong. The time that the Ministry of Transport proposes to extend is March 31, 2021.
The Cat Linh – Ha Dong railway project started in October 2011 with a length of more than 13 km, 12 and is scheduled for completion in June 2015; The total investment of the project according to the initial approval is more than 500 million dollars. However, according to the Ministry of Transportation, currently the total investment of the adjusted project is 868.04 million dollars, of which the loan from the Government of China is 669.62 million dollars; The rest is the counterpart capital of the Vietnamese government.
By December 12, the project will test the operation of the entire system, until December 31 for the safety assessment, then carry out the inspection and assessment of the system’s safety certification. and deliver the project. This work is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.
The Chinese general contractor has also completed the acquisition of 13 standard B1 trains, which are already technically operating on the project. Currently, the investor has disbursed ODA principal of 551 out of the total loan amount of $ 669 million.
So far, the project has missed 8 commercial operation appointments, although the trains have been imported for almost 2 years. The technical operation plan was also recently discontinued due to many reasons, including the epidemic effect of COVID-19.
The Ministry of Transportation said that for a long time, the Railway Project Management Board (investor representative) and the China EPC General Contractor have discussed many times, but still do not know the responsibility related to the issues. such as: design approval, acceptance organization …
At the last meeting in November, the Prime Minister asked Transport Minister Nguyen Van The to drastically remove the difficulties and put the project into commercial exploitation.
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