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Central tunnel is in the pipeline

(Date:April 16, 2003. Source: Vietnam News)

THUA THIEN HUE — Excavators of a 6.7km-long tunnel project under the Hai Van Pass in central Viet Nam are expected to reach each other in October, having been building the tunnel from both ends for the past two years.

Underground efforts: The tunnel will reduce the journey across the Hai Van Pass by 9km and accommodate vehicles weighing up to 30 tonnes after being completed in mid-2004. —VNA/VNS Photo Cong Dien

Workers have dug more than 2,300 metres into the mountain from the north and 2,000 from the south, according to officials from the project management unit.

The 12.18km tunnel project, including the 6.7km tunnel itself, will link Lang Co Bridge on National Highway No. 1A in Thua Thien-Hue Province’s Phu Loc District in the north with the Cau Den Bridge near Da Nang city in the south.

The scheme, scheduled to be completed in mid-2004, will reduce the journey across Hai Van Pass by 9 km and accommodate vehicles weighing up to 30 tonnes.

The tunnel project has a total cost of US$251 million (VND3.7 trillion). Of this amount, 85 per cent has come from Official Development Assistance loans provided by the Japan Bank for International Co-operation.

Hai Van Pass Tunnel will operate as a toll-road next year, said officials from the management unit. — VNS

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