Decision No. 568/QD-TTg dated April 08, 2013 of the Prime Minister approving the adjustment for the transportation development planning of Ho Chi Minh in 2020 and the vision to 2020

THE PRIME MINISTER

Decision No.  568/QD-TTg dated April 08, 2013 of the Prime Minister approving the adjustment for the transportation development planning of Ho Chi Minh in 2020 and the vision to 2020

Pursuant to the Law on Government Organization dated December 25, 2001;

At the proposal of the Ministry of Transport (At the Statement No. 1279/TTr-BGTVT dated February 08, 2013) on the adjustment of transportation development planning of Ho Chi Minh City by 2020 with a vision after 2020,

DECIDES:

Article 1. To approve the adjustment for the transportation development planning of Ho Chi Minh city in 2020 and the vision to 2020 with the contents as follows:

I. DEVELOPMENT VIEWPOINT

1. Ho Chi Minh’s transportation development should be complied with social economic development planning of Ho Chi Minh City and local and national transportation development’s strategy and planning.

2. Ho Chi Minh’s transportation development should be attached with the geographical areas to ensure convenient transportation between Ho Chi Minh city with satellite towns in the region, in country and in the world.

3. To develop the modern, sustainable and synchronous transportation infrastructure network to meet the convenient travel demands of the people, proactively responding to climate change and sea level rise. To focus on maintenance to fully exploit the capacity of current transport infrastructure, investing in groundbreaking, urgent, key projects to play a dynamic role for social economic development.

4. To improve the quality of transport, focus on public passenger transportation with large volume, restrain environmental pollution, use energy efficiently, accelerate the application of advanced transportation technologies, especially multimodal transport and logistics.

5. To ensure scientific characteristics, reasonableness and feasibility and meeting the immediate demand and long-term orientation. To mobilize all domestic and foreign resources, to encourage all economic sectors to invest in the transportation development in any form, to attract foreign investment and international integration, to strengthen security and national defense and sustainable development.

6. Priority is given to land fund reserve reasonably in order to develop transportation infrastructure, strengthen the traffic safety corridor, limit and reduce congestion and traffic accidents. To train and develop human resources, apply science and advanced technologies and enhance international cooperation in transport development in Ho Chi Minh City.

II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

1. Objective to 2020

a) Transportation:

In order to meet transportation need increasingly, reasonable price to ensure safety, convenience, limit and reduce traffic accidents and environmental pollution on the basis of organizing transportation reasonably and promoting the advantages of Ho Chi Minh city, gradually developing public transportation with large volume, multimodal transportation and logistics. The targets are as follows:

- Public transportation means (bus, urban railway, taxi): Market share taken from 20% ÷ 25%;

- Private transportation means (cars, motorcycles, bicycles): Market share taken from 72% to 77%;

- Other types of transportation: Market share taken at 3%.

b) Transport infrastructure:

Basically investing in the main roadway transportation system including: Radial roads, diametric roads and belt routes to take on the role of urban transportation and traffic distribution from inner city to the suburbs. Building from 1-2 overhead roadway line. For the current urban arterial roads, improving and upgrading 90 -100% of road surface increase traffic capacity. The newly-built urban arterial roads must ensure the building line as planned and road grade standard.

Investing in building from 2-3 urban railways to meet the public passenger transportation demand.

Performing relocation of the ports on Saigon River. Synchronously developing the system of seaports and port channels; Priority is given to the investment of key seaports (Cat Lai port, Nha Be River port and Hiep Phuoc port) to meet the transportation demand of the region.

Improving, upgrading and completing in order to bring into technical level of inland waterway transportation routes and channels; upgrading and intensively investing in river ports, building terminals for passenger transportation and tourism.

Improving and upgrading Tan Son Nhat airport to reach capacity of 23.5 million passengers / year and 600,000 tons of cargo / year by 2015. Investing in building Long Thanh International airport to meet demand in each period.

2. Development orientation to 2020 afterwards

To meet the demands for society’s transportation and transportation services with high quality, international standards, reasonable and competitive prices, fastness and safety, convenient connections between transportation means between Ho Chi Minh city with satellite towns, with both domestically and internationally. The specific targets are as follows:

- Public transportation means (bus, urban railway, taxi): By 2030, market share taken from 35% ÷ 45%, from 50% ÷ 60% after 2030;

- Private transportation means (cars, motorcycles, bicycles): By 2030, taking market share taken from 51% ÷ 61%, from 35% ÷ 45% after 2030;

- The other types of transportation: By 2030, the market share shall be taken at 4%, about 5% after 2030.

Basically completing and modernizing the transportation infrastructure network. Further building other transportation infrastructure network as planned.

III. DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

1. Roadway

a) High-speed axes:

To developing and complete the investment in high-speed axes with large traffic capacity.

- The Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thanh–Dau Giay expressway, approximately 55 km in length, size of 6 -8 lanes;

- The Ho Chi Minh – Thu Dau Mot - Chon Thanh expressway, approximately 69 km in length, size of 6 ÷ 8 lanes;

- The Ho Chi Minh – Moc Bai expressway, approximately 55 km in length, size of 4 ÷ 6 lanes;

- The Ben Luc - Long Thanh expressway, approximately 58 km in length, size of 6 ÷ 8 lanes;

- The Bien Hoa - Vung Tau expressway, approximately 76 km in length, size of 6 ÷ 8 lanes;

- Upgrading and expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong expressway up to 8 lanes, approximately 40 km in length at a given time.

b) The national highways:

Improving and upgrading radial national highways

- Northern national highway 1, section of Station 2 - Vung Tau intersection, approximately 7.5 km in length, size of 10 lanes with motorway standard of grade I;

- Southern national highway 1, section of Lac - Belt 4 (Ben Luc) intersection, approximately 16.5 km in length, size of 8 lanes with motorway standard of grade I;

- National highway 1, section of Station 2 intersection – An Lac (Belt 2) intersection, approximately 34.0 km in length, size of 8 lanes with standard of primary main streets.

- National highway 1K, Hoa An bridge – Linh Xuan intersection, approximately 10,2 km in length, size of 8 lanes with motorway standard of grade II;

- National highway 13:

+ Binh Phuoc section (Belt 2) – Thu Dau Mot intersection, approximately 13,5 km in length, size of 8 lanes with motorway standard of grade I;

+ Binh Phuoc section (Belt 2) – inner city area, approximately 13,5 km in length, size of 8 lanes with standard of secondary main street;

- National highway 22, An Suong section – Cu Chi (Belt 4), approximately 31,0 km in length, size of 10-12 lanes with motorway standard of grade I;

- National highway 50:

+ Belt 2 – Can Giuoc town, approximately 15.0 km in length, size of 6 lanes with motorway standard of grade II;

+ Belt 2 – inner city shall be improved and upgraded into secondary main streets, 03 km in length, size of 4 - 6 lanes. Building parallel road, approximately 7.4 km in length, size of 4 - 6 lanes

c) Belt routes:

- Closely building the belt route 2, approximately 64.0 km in length, size of 6 -10 lanes with standard of main street under the control points: Go Dua Intersection - Binh Phuoc intersection - An Suong intersection - cutting the diametric axis of East - West - Nguyen Van Linh street- Phu My bridge - cutting the highway of Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay – cutting Hanoi Highway at Binh Thai - Go Dua intersection;

- Building the belt route 3, approximately 89.0 km in length, size of 6 -8 lanes with standard of expressway approved by Decision No. 1697/QD-TTg dated September 28, 2011 of the Prime Minister updating adjustment of sectional scale of My Phuoc – Tan Van of 32 m associated with building overhead Belt 3 expressway.

- Building the belt route 4, approximately 198,0 km in length, size of 6 -8 lanes with expressway standard approved by Decision No. 1698/QD-TTg dated September 28, 2011 of the Prime Minister

Urban arterial roads:

- Completely building and extending the East-West road axis to the South connecting the belt route 3, approximately 30.7 km in length, size of 6-10 lanes

- Completely building the North-South road axis from An Suong to Hiep Phuoc industrial zone, approximately 34.7 km in length, size of 4-8 lanes.

- Completely building the road axis of Pham Van Dong – Bach Dang and Hong Ha – Truong Son – Hoang Van Thu – Thoai Ngoc Hau – inner Belt connecting Nguyen Van Linh street, approximately 30.0 km in length, size of 4 -8 lanes.

- Newly building the road route connecting national highway 1 (Station 2 intersection) – Belt 3, approximately 6.0 km in length, size of 6 lanes with standard of urban main street.

- Improving and enhancing traffic capacity of urban main streets in accordance with urban construction master plan approved in the direction of limited site clearance in line with the specific conditions of each road with over 90 road routes with a total length of about 441 km.

d) Overhead road routes

Building over road system including 5 road routes, total length of 70.7 km, size of 4 lanes including:

- Road route 1: From Cong Hoa intersection along Cong Hoa – Tran Quoc Hoan – Phan Thuc Duyen – Hoang Van Thu – Phan Dang Luu – Phan Xich Long – Phan Xich Long (extension) intercrossing Dien Bien Phu street. At this point, one road route is separated for going up and down at Dien Bien Phu intersection, the remaining branch shall be extended along Ngo Tat To street ending in front of Phu An bridge with approximately 9.5 km in length.

- Road route No. 2: Intercrossing the overhead road No.1 at Lang Cha Ca – Bui Thi Xuan – location of bridge No.5 on Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal – alley No. 656 Cach Mang Thang 8 – Bac Hai – alley No.2 Thien Phuoc – alley 654 Au Co – along Dam Sen park – Bau Trau ditch – Chien Luoc street – Backroad 2 and ending at national highway (Belt 2) intersection with approximately 11.8 km in length.

- Road route No.3: Intercrossing the road route No.2 at Thanh Thai – Ly Thai To – Nguyen Van Cu – Ong Lon ditch – Nguyen Van Linh with approximately 8.1 km in length.

- Road route No.4: Starting from national highway 1 (intercrossing the overhead road route No.5) – Vuon Lai – passing Vam Thuat river at Lang ditch and North-South railway (at area of Den bridge) – planned Phan Chu Trinh street extended to My Phuoc condominium and then connecting Dien Bien Phu street intercrossing the road route 1 with approximately 7.3 km in length.

- Road route No.5: going coincidently with the Belt 2 /(national highway 1) from Station 2 intersection to An Lac intersection with approximately 34.0 km in length.

e) Traffic intersection:

Improving and newly building other 102 main traffic intersections of different levels concentrated on belt routes, radial roads, urban main roads, at locations with condition and priority needs to organize them into connected intersections. Improving and expanding 34 main traffic intersections of the same levels. Improving and refurbishing the remaining intersections.

f) Big bridges and river-crossing tunnel:

Newly building 34 bridges, 01 river-crossing tunnel with the scale of bridges and tunnels the same level as roads. Particularly the bridges and tunnels crossing large river as follows:

- Nha Be river: Newly building 01 bridge;

- Long Tau river: Newly building 01 bridge;

- Thi Vai river: Newly building 01 bridge;

- Dong Nai river: Newly building 09 bridge;

- Saigon river: river: Newly building 14 bridges and 01 tunnel

- Doi canal. Te canal, Cho Dem canal, Ong Lon ditch, Xom Cui ditch, Cac ditch: Newly building 08 bridges.

g) Provincial roads:

Building and improving the current provincial roads to support radial national highways including:

- West- North newly opened road, section of Belt 2 – Hau Nghia, approximately 19.8 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Provincial road 15, section of Quang Trung software park – Ben Suc bridge, approximately 41.0 km in length, size of 4-6 lanes;

- Provincial road 10 (Tran Van Giau), section of Belt 2 – Duc Hoa, approximately 22.4 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Provincial road 10 B, section of Ten Lua street – Tan Tao bridge, approximately 5.0 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Provincial road 14 (Phan Van Hon street), section of Belt 2 – Belt 4, approximately 22.3 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Provincial road 16 (Le Van Khuong street), section of Belt 2 – Provincial road 8, approximately 16.0 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Provincial road 12 (Ha Huy Giap street), section of Belt 2 – Phu Long bridge, approximately 7.3 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Ha Huy Giap Parallel road, section Nguyen Oanh – provincial road 12, approximately 4.0 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

- Road extended to Phuoc An port, section from the Ben Luc - Long Thanh - Phuoc An port expressway, approximately 4.8 km in length, size of 6 lanes;

h) Static transportation:

Rearranging the whole system of points, terminal, parking lot accordingly to ensure traffic order and safety, urban landscape and limit traffic congestion on the following principles:

- Priority is given to land fund reserve reasonably in order to develop static traffic; newly-built works must have reasonable land fund reserved for static traffic;

- Priority is given to a portion of land fund reserved for static traffic from plants, factories, agencies….when removed out of urban centers (inside the belt route 2);

- Land area of the old bus station removed shall be retained as a transit point, the bus terminal and a portion of area shall be reserved for static traffic;

- Total area of open storage and station is approximately 1.146 hectares including:

+ Improving, building and transferring the utility of the open storage and station I order to form 07 interprovincial bus stations with an area of around 79 hectares. To place 22 bus stations including 11 main bus stations and 11 area bus stations with an area of around 30 hectares. Planning 20 cargo car stations at the gateway into and out of the inner city and on the belt route 2 in service of gathering cargo from provinces and then transferred to inner city or to ports and vice versa with an area of 305 hectares. Improving and newly building 3 cargo terminals with an area of 130 hectares. Total area for each terminal is around 544 hectares.

+ Improving and newly building 17 technical open storage for bus with an area of 51 ha. Placing 15 taxi parking lots with an area of around 520 hectares for trucks and cars. Priority is given to car parking lots along the belt route 2, at the location into and out of the inner city. Total area for each open storage is around 602 hectares.

i) Rural transportation:

Improving traffic roads to the head office of communal People’s Committee and rural traffic system in accordance with Decision No. 800/QĐ-TTg dated June 04, 2010 of the Prime Minister and Decision No. 1509/QĐ-BGTVT dated July 08, 2011 of the Ministry of Transportation.

2. Railway

a) National railway:

- Railway route: Planning radial national railway routes, double track, electrification, track size of 1.435 mm as follows:

+ Improving and upgrading North-South railway route of Ho Chi Minh area, Trang Bom – Hoa Hung section in which newly building the bypass of Bien Hoa City to the South and Binh Trieu – Hoa Hung section into the overhead railway, approximately 41.0 km in length.

+ Studying the new construction of high speed railway between Ho Chi Minh and Can Tho ( may be extended to Ca Mau) connecting with North-South railway at An Binh station, approximately 174.0 km in length.

+ Building Bien Hoa – Vung Tau railway route transiting cargo with North-South railway at the new Trang Bom station, connecting with Trang Bom – Hoa Hung railway at the new Bien Hoa station, approximately 107.0 km in length.

+ Studying to invest in the new railway route of Ho Chi Minh – Tay Ninh (may be extended to Moc Bai and Xa Mat border gate) connecting with the railway of Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Can Tho at Tan Chanh Hiep station, approximately 139.0 km in length.

+ Studying to newly build Di An – Loc Ninh railway route connecting Cambodia (Trans-Asian Railway) connecting the North-South railway at Di An station, approximately 128.0 km in length.

+ Studying to newly build Ho Chi Minh – Nha Trang high speed railway route with the first terminal in Thu Thiem, the length passing Ho Chi Minh area to Long Thanh international airport (Dong Nai) is approximately 33.0 km.

+ Studying to newly build the Thu Thiem – Long Thanh airport light railway with the first terminal at Thu Thiem station, approximately 37.0 km in length.

+ Studying to newly build the special-use railway connecting from the national railway to Hiep Phuoc port, approximately 38.0 km in length.

- Railway station: Studying the investment in newly building of stations in the railway hub of Ho Chi Minh City, including:

+ Passenger station: Northern technical passenger station (Binh Trieu station with an area of around 41.0 hectares), the central passenger station ( Saigon station with an area of around 6.14 hectares) and the southern technical passenger station (Tan Kien station with an area of around 75.0 hectares including area of cargo terminal and Tan Kien ICD). Newly building the Thu Thiem station for Ho Chi Minh – Nha Trang railway route, the Thu Thiem – Long Thanh international airport light railway route, area of Thu Thiem station is around 17.2 hectares; the passenger stations for suburban train on Binh Trieu – Hoa Hung overhead railway, as well as on sections of Tan Kien – My Tho, Binh Trieu – Bien Hoa, Di An – Chanh Luu (of Di An – Loc Ninh route), Tan Chanh Hiep – Trang Bang (of Ho Chi Minh – Tay Ninh route). Newly building stations on Ho Chi Minh – My Tho – Can Tho railway route from section of An Binh – Tan Kien along the Belt including stations: Vinh Phu (area of around 4.70 hectares), Thanh Xuan (area of around 3.2 hectares, Tan Chanh Hiep (area of around 1.74 hectares), Vinh Loc (area of around 5.8 hectares). The total area of stations is around 154.8 hectares.

+ Cargo terminal: Train establishment station and An Binh open storage (area of around 71.0 hectares), Trang Bom cargo terminal of transshipment between the track size of 1.000 mm and track size of 1.435 mm (area of around 27.2 hectares), Phuoc Tan cargo terminal – rail connecting station to Long Binh ICD (area of around 8.4 hectares), Tien station of Thi Vai port – container loading terminal into Thi Vai and Cai Mep (area of around 16.7 hectares); cargo terminal and Tan Kien ICD; Long Dinh cargo terminal as the rail connecting station down to Hiep Phuoc port in service of loading and unloading of cargo for Ben Suc, Long An industrial clusters (area of around 15.0 hectares). The total area of stations is around 138.2 hectares.

b) Urban railway:

Building 08 diametric and annular route connecting main centers of city, mainly in the inner-city underground:

- Route No.1: Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien, approximately 19.7km in length, studying its extension up to Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province and Binh Duong province as follows:

+ Extending up to Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province: From Suoi Tien station along national highway 1 to Sat market junction, Bien Hoa city.

+ Extending to Binh Duong: From Suoi Tien – My Phuoc – Tan Van – XT1 street – central station ( Binh Duong industrial, urban and service complex)

- Route No.2: West North urban center (Cu Chi district) – National highway 22 - Tay Ninh Bus Station - Truong Chinh - (branch into Tham Luong Depot) - Cach Mang Thang Tam - Pham Hong Thai - Le Lai - Ben Thanh – Thu Thiem, approximately 48.0 km in length;

- Route No.3a: Ben Thanh – Pham Ngu Lao – Cong Hoa – Hung Vuong – Hong Bang – Kinh Duong Vuong – Tan Kien depot -  Tan Kien station intersection, approximately 19.8 km in length. Studying the extension of route No.3a connecting Tan An city (Long An province) from Hung Nhon station moving along national highway 1.

- Route No.3b: Cong Hoa – Nguyen Thi Minh Khai – Xo Viet Nghe Tinh – national highway 13 – Hiep Binh Phuoc, approximately 12.1 km in length. Studying the connection with Thu Dau Mot town (Binh Duong province) from Hiep Binh station and moving along national highway 13 connecting with the urban railway No. 1 of Binh Duong province.

- Route No.4: Thanh Xuan – Ha Huy Giap – Nguyen Oanh – Nguyen Kiem – Phan Dinh Phung – Hai Ba Trung – Ben Thanh - Nguyen Thai Hoc-Ton Dan - Nguyen Huu Tho - Hiep Phuoc urban Area, approximately 36.2 km in length;

- Route No. 4b: Gia Dinh Park station (Route No.4) - Nguyen Thai Son - Hong Ha - Tan Son Nhat international airport - Truong Son - Hoang Van Thu Park - Lang Cha Ca station (Route 5), approximately 5.2 km in length;

- Route No.5: New Giuoc bus station – National highway 50 - Tung Thien Vuong - Phu Dong Thien Vuong - Ly Thuong Kiet - Hoang Van Thu - Phan Dang Luu – Bach Dang - Dien Bien Phu - Saigon bridge, approximately 26. 0 km in length;

- Route No.6: Ba Queo - Au Co – Luy Ban Bich - Tan Hoa Dong - Phu Lam roundabout, approximately 5,6 km in length;

Planning the construction of 07 depots as follows: Suoi Tien – area of around 27.7 ha (Route No.1), Tham Luong – area of around 25 hectares (Route No.2), Tan Kien – area of around 26.5 hectares (Route No.3a), Hiep Binh Phuoc – area of around 20.0 hectares (Route No.3a), Thanh Xuan – area of around 27.0 hectares, Nha Be – area of around 20.0 hectares (Route No.4), Da Phuoc – area of around 32.0 hectares (Route No.5), the total area of depots is around 158.2 hectares and urban railway stations: Central station (Ben Thanh station), rail-connecting station and connecting station between routes (Ba Queo station, Nga 6 Cong Hoa station, Lang Cha Ca station….), Intermediate Stations: Average from 700 m to 2.000 m placing 01 station.

c) Other urban railway:

Building 03 tramway or monorail routes including:

Tramway route No.1: Ba Son - Ton Duc Thang - Me Linh square - Vo Van Kiet - Ly Chieu Hoang – existing West Bus station, approximately 12.8 km in length. It may be extended from Ba Son to Binh Quoi urban area (Thanh Da - Binh Thanh);

- Monorail route No.2: National highway No.50 (district 8) - Nguyen Van Linh - Tran Nao - Xuan Thuy (District 2) - Binh Quoi urban area (Thanh Da - Binh Thanh). It may be connected with the railway Route No.3a, approximately 27.2 km in length;

- Monorail route No.3: Intersection (Phan Van Tri – Nguyen Oanh)- Phan Van Tri – Quang Trung – Quang Trung software park – To Ky – Tan Chanh Hiep, approximately 16.5 km in length;

- Building 03 depots for tramway or monorail routes as follows: West bus station, area of around 2.1 hectares (tramway route No.1); Nguyen Van Linh street, area of around 5.9 hectares (monorail route No.2), Tan Chanh Hiep street, area of around 5.90 hectares (monorail route No.3). The total area of depots is around 13.9 hectares.

3. Bus rapid transit (BRT) system

Building 6 routes of BRT including:

- BRT route No.1: Along Vo Van Kiet – Mai Chi Tho boulevard, approximately 20.5 km in length;

- BRT route No.2: Along Nguyen Van Linh street from the new West bus station to Phu My bridge, approximately 24.0 km in length;

- BRT route No.3: Along the belt route 2 from An Suong intersection to the new West bus station, approximately 19.0 km in length;

- BRT route No.4: Along Tan Son Nhat – Binh Loi road axis (after being put into operation), from Kha Van Can street to Chien Thang park, approximately 14.5 km in length;

- BRT route No.5: Along Thoai Ngoc Hau – inner Belt road axis - extension to Nguyen Van Linh (after being expanded, completed and put into operation) from Bon xa intersection to Nguyen Van Linh street, approximately 8.7 km in length;

- BRT route No.6: Along Quang Trung street (after being expanded, completed and put into operation), in the direction of the Monorail route No.3, approximately 8.5 km in length;

- Particularly, when the tramway routes No.1, Monorail route No.2 and 3 are completed and put into operation, they shall replace BRT route No. 1, 2 and 6.

Other BRT routes shall be built on the basis of actual situation of traffic technical infrastructure and travel need.

4. Seaway

a) Shipping routes:

- Saigon – Vung Tau channel: Improving some bending sections, maintaining the depth and maritime signal system of Long Tau channel for vessels of 30,000 DWT taking advantage of tides to go in and out in daytime and at night-time

- Soai Rap channel: In the phase to 2015 satisfying vessels up to 30,000 DWT of full load and 50,000 DWT of load reduction. In the next phase, further dredging for vessels up to 50,000 DWT of full load and over 50,000 DWT of load reduction.

b) Seaports

- Ho Chi Minh port is the national general port and area hub port (type I) including main wharves: Wharf on Saigon river, Cat Lai wharf on Dong Nai river, wharf on Nha Be river, Hiep Phuoc wharf on Soai Rap river, wharf in Long An and Tien Giang province on Soai Rap river.

- Detailed planning for wharves with the following main functions:

+ Port on Saigon river: Including 11 docks / piers for vessels from 20.000-30.000 DWT operating. This port shall be removed and converted its utility  ​​under Decision No. 791/QĐ-TTg dated August 12, 2005 of the Prime Minister, partially converting Khanh Hoi port into domestic passenger station and maritime service center. The wharves which have not removed shall be improved, upgraded without expansion.

+ Cat Lai port (Dong Nai river): including 09 docks / piers for vessel up to 30.000 DWT operating. This is the main container wharf of the port in the immediate future;

+ Nha Be port (Nha Be river) including 10 docks/piers for vessel up to 20.000 - 30.000 DWT. Planning for improvement and upgrade (without expansion) of wharves on Nha Be river for vessel up to 30.000 DWT. Planning for new construction of passenger wharf for vessel of 50.000 GRT in Phu Thuan (downstream of the bridge);

+ Hiep Phuoc port (Soai Rap river): is the main wharf of the port in the future, mainly performing general cargo of containers for vessels of 50,000 DWT and 4,000 TEU container ships, there are some specialized wharves for ships of 20.000-30.000 DWT in direct service of the adjacent industrial facilities;

+ Long An and Tien Giang port (on Soai Rap river): Wharves with their functions as general wharf, oil services, LPG specialized wharf receiving vessels of up to 50.000 DWT and over in accordance with capacity of the channel.

c) Inland container depot (ICD):

- East-North area of Ho Chi Minh City: Building Trang Bom ICD with customs clearance capacity of around 6 million TEU/year, in service of cargo mainly through Ba Ria – Vung Tau and Ho Chi Minh City port cluster.

- West-South area of Ho Chi Minh City: Forming Tan Kien ICD with customs clearance capacity of around 1.7 million TEU/year, in service of cargo mainly through Ba Ria – Vung Tau and Ho Chi Minh City port cluster and Tien Giang port.

5. Inland water way

a) Channel and route of waterway:

Inter-provincial routes:

- Ho Chi Minh city to western provinces (Mekong Delta):

+ Ho Chi Minh city – Ca Mau – Ha Tien (Kien Luong), approximately 320.0 km in length, grade III river standard.

+ Ho Chi Minh city –Dong Thap Muoi- Long Xuyen quadrangle, approximately 288.0 km in length, grade III river standard.

- Ho Chi Minh city to eastern provinces:

+ Ho Chi Minh city – Bien Hoa (Dong Nai), approximately 53.0 km in length, grade I river standard for Dong Nai river and grade II for Saigon river.

+ Ho Chi Minh city –Binh Duong (Thu Dau Mot), approximately 85.7 km in length from Saigon bridge, grade III river standard.

- Ho Chi Minh city to North West provinces, approximately 44.0 km in length, grade IV and V river standard.

The bypass routes and urban connection to the new port area:

- The bypass routes:

+ Chiec ditch – Trau Trau ditch – Tac river route, approximately 44.0 km in length, grade IV river standard.

+ Giong Ong To ditch – Dong Trong ditch – Chiec ditch, approximately 7.4 km in length, grade IV river standard.

+ Thi Vai – Mekong Delta bypass route, approximately 17.6 km in length, grade IV and V river standard.

- Urban connection routes – Go Dau port – Thi Vai:

+ Ben Luc river – Thi Vai river route, approximately 61.2 km in length, grade VI river standard.

+ Te canal – Thi Vai river, approximately 52.2 km in length, grade IV river standard.

- Urban connection routes – Hiep Phuoc port:

+ Dia ditch – Nha Be river, approximately 9.8 km in length, grade IV river standard.

+ Ong Lon 2 ditch – Soai Rap route, approximately 9.0 km in length, grade IV river standard.

+ Tom ditch – Soai Rap river route, approximately 8.2 km in length, grade IV river standard.

+ Doi ditch – Soai Rap river route, approximately 9.0 km in length, grade VI river standard.

+ Dua ditch – Soai Rap river route, approximately 11.3 km in length, grade VI river standard.

- Outer Belt route, approximately 45.0 km in length, grade VI river standard.

Urban routes:

- Inner Belt route: Approximately 30.0 km in length (excluding section of Saigon river), grade V river standard.

- Route of East-West axis:

+ Saigon river – Cho Dem river in Ben Luc, approximately 13.4 km in length, grade III river standard.

+ Ben Nghe ditch – Tau Hu canal, approximately 12.1 km in length, grade V river standard.

- Individual route: Lo Gom – Ong Buong route, approximately 3.0 km in length, grade VI river standard; Ngang canal No.1, approximately 0.4 km in length and No. 2 approximately 0.4 km in length, river 03 approximately 0.4 km in length. Thanh Da canal, approximately 1,3 km in length, grade V river standard.

Urban and suburb connection routes:

-Urban - suburban route: Saigon River (Bach Dang quay) - Ben Duoc Temple (Cu Chi), approximately 38,0 km in length, grade V river standard.

- Urban – Can Gio tourism area route: Sai Gon river ( Bach Dang quay) – Den Xanh tourism quay (Long Hoa commune), grade III river standard.

b) Inland waterway port:

- Arranging cargo and passenger terminal on Te canal route;

- Reorganizing and arranging activities of Truong Tho port on Dao ditch in the area of Truong Tho Ward, Thu Duc District;

- Further building and completing river way cargo terminal: Phu Dinh port for vessel with 3,000 tons and capacity of 2,000,000 tons/year (ward 16, district 8) Long Binh port (Long Binh ward, district 9) for vessel of 2,000 tons and a capacity of 1,700,000 tons / year;

- Newly building cargo port: Nhon Duc port (Nha Be district) for vessels of 3,000 tons and a capacity of 1,200,000 tons / year;

- Partially planning and improving Saigon port at Nha Rong and Khanh Hoi quay into small size tourism port and maritime service center;

- Planning and building tourism port at Long Hoa commune, Can Gio district.

c) Inland waterway quay:

- Improving and re-organizing Bach Dang passenger wharf;

-Planning cargo terminals on the outer Belt and Northern City;

- Planning passenger terminals at Tau Hu, Te and Doi canal axis and Saigon river;

- Re-organizing the system of cargo and passenger terminals

6. Planning of airport system

- Improving and upgrading Tan Son Nhat airport to reach capacity of 23,5 millions guests/year and 600,000 tons of cargo/year by 2015;

- Formulating construction investment project of Long Thanh international airport, Dong Nai province for construction after 2015.

7. City’s traffic control center

Supplementing management function of general public transport and intelligent transportation system for the whole city with the estimated location at 23-9 Park (for all modes of transport) and newly building 01 public passenger transport control Center expected at the location of the old west bus station.

8. Preferential investment projects

Projects invested with priority are the ones which aim to address the synchronous connection of transport infrastructure network and are the driving power for transport development in Ho Chi Minh for the period 2013-2020.

(in the Appendix 1-1 and Appendix 1-2)

9. Traffic safety assurance

- Improving the legal system, strengthening the organization of traffic safety management from central to local level aiming to ensure traffic safety and order in a sustainable manner, strongly decentralizing localities on management, patrol, control and handling of violations of traffic safety and order;

- Strengthening and improving the effectiveness of propagation, dissemination and education combined with strengthening the enforcement of the law on traffic safety and order;

- Developing traffic infrastructure systems must ensure safety corridor and be assessed for traffic safety associated with the construction of intersections and handling of black points on the route;

- Raising the training, testing quality and managing person controlling means of transportation and inspection quality of motor vehicles.

- Strengthening rescue and salvage to minimize losses caused by traffic accidents.

10. Environmental protection and land used for traffic

a) Environmental protection:

- Improving standards and regulations on environmental protection in construction and operation of transportation works. Strengthening the propagation, dissemination, education and enforcement of implementation of environmental laws;

- Implementing impact assessment: Integration of factors of climate change, sea level rise, thrifty and efficient use of energy from the planning. Regular monitoring of the implementation of regulations on environmental protection of construction and operation of traffic work project; priority is given to the new environment-friendly technologies in order to minimize negative environmental impact;

- The traffic works and transport vehicles must have the technical standards and quality assure with requirements on environmental protection;

- Building modern public traffic system combined with the efficient use of fuel in transport activities to minimize environmental pollution.

b) Demand for land use:

It is estimated that the land fund used for traffic infrastructure system of Ho Chi Minh City by 2020 is 22,305 hectares accounting for 22,3% construction land fund of the City, particularly:

- Land for roadway transportation excluding static traffic is around 18,015 hectares;

- Land used for static traffic is around .146 hectares;

- Land used for railway traffic is around 1,320 hectares;

- Land used for maritime and inland waterway transportation is around 1,008 ha;

- Land used for airport is around 816 hectares.

11. Major solutions and policies

a) Solutions and policies for transportation development:

- Priority is given to focusing the development of urban passenger transportation development, especially transportation with large volume while controlling the development of personal means.

- Innovating means, technologies, equipment of transportation services, priority is given to container transportation, multimode and logistics services to reasonably regulate between transportation modes. Organizing transportation hubs to minimize the number of vehicles moving into the city center causing traffic jams.

- During the short term, it is necessary to address issues including measures to strengthen traffic signal control system, improving conditions of intersection, managing traffic demand, improving traffic safety equipment, parking control system, operating conditions for buses; education program about traffic safety system of the motor vehicle inspection;

- The medium and long term planning for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) with the systems such as: Way leading, electronic charging, safe driving assistance; optimization of traffic management and strengthening of road management efficiency, public transport assistance, pedestrians assistance, assistance for emergencies ...

b) Solutions and policies on development of traffic infrastructure:

- Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with localities in the area together with relevant Ministries and sectors to apply mechanisms, policies and forms of capital mobilization in any form such as: Capital resource of localities, building – operation-transfer (BOT), Public Private Partnerships (PPP), transfer of right of exploitation business, exploitation of land fund and relevant services, state budget (including ODA), issuance of Government bonds for investment in traffic infrastructure development.

- In order to exploit the capacity and efficiency of the traffic works in the area, the construction and upgrade of traffic works shall comply with specialized planning, regional planning;

- Strengthening the cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and the relevant localities to generate breakthrough in traffic infrastructure investment by 2020, creating a link between Ho Chi Minh City and the relevant localities as well as between modes of transport, reducing urban traffic congestion;

- Priority is given to land fund reserve reasonably for development of transport infrastructure for the period 2013-2020 as well as the period after 2020, especially paying attention to land fund for static traffic.

- Deploying in detail the traffic planning: traffic intersection, static traffic…;

- With projects deployed in the City, the minimum building height should comply with Decision No. 24/QD-TTg dated January 06, 2010 of the Prime Minister on approval of adjustment of master plan of construction of Ho Chi Minh City by 2025. For construction projects outside the City, depending on works grade and project scale to consider and choose scenarios consistent with sea level rise published by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.;

- Enhancing the management and maintenance of traffic infrastructure system, reserving adequate capital for the management and maintenance.

Article 2. Implementation organization

1. Responsibilities:

- After approving the adjusted planning, Ho Chi Minh City People s Committee and People s Committee of relevant provinces shall publish planning, determine land boundary for transportation and management to avoid overlapping of building permit.

- Managing land fund for transportation to ensure the feasibility of the planning is an urgent need in a rapid urbanization condition in the City;

- For urban metro, in addition to management of building line on the land, the City People’s Committee shall direct Services, Departments and sectors and relevant local governments to closely manage the planning and granting of building permit of high-rise buildings and works with deep foundation occupying the underground land along the corridor of metro route, determine and manage land fund reserved for depot for urban railway;

- Conducting the review and adjustment of planning and projects in the area in accordance with this Decision;

- Coordinating with the Ministries: Planning and Investment, Finance, Transport and relevant sectors to determine capital resources for investment and formulation of appropriate mechanisms and policies in order to ensure the feasibility adjusted planning’s approval.

- Immediately conducting detailed planning related to transportation such as: detailed planning of intersection, static traffic planning…, decision on the size of construction works under the adjusted planning;

- In case of supplementation and adjustment of planning, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and People’s Committee of relevant provinces shall coordinate with the Ministry of Transport and relevant Ministries and sectors for submission to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision;

- Regularly directing the examination, inspection of the management and use of land fund for transport, ensuring the proper land use purpose and as planned. In case of detecting violations, recovery must be done to ensure the land fund for transport development.

2. Responsibilities of Ministry of Transport

Assuming the prime responsibilities and coordinating with Ministries, sectors, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and People’s Committee of relevant provinces to perform projects of national transportation development in the area under the approved planning.

Article 3.This Decision takes effect on the date of its signing and supersedes Decision No.101/QD-TTg dated January 22, 2007. All contents on the contrary with this Decision shall be annulled.

Article 4.Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People s Committee, Chairman of People s Committee of Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Tay Ninh, Long An, Ba Ria - Vung Tau shall implement this Decision.

Prime Minister

Nguyen Tan Dung