1/ 105km Hanoi-Hai Phong Highway: The construction of Vietnam’s most modern highway started in May, 2008 and was completed in late December this year. Total investment capital was estimated at VND45,487 billion (US$2.02 billion). This is the first highway of Vietnam built under international standards. Permissible speed is 120 kilometers an hour and standard toll rate is VND1,500 per vehicle per kilometer. The highway goes through four provinces of Hanoi, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, and Hai Phong.

It starts from Hanoi’s belt road No. 3 to the port of Dinh Vu in Hai Phong. It helps shorten travel time between Hanoi and Hai Phong from 2.5 hours to less than 1.5 hours.

2/ The upgraded and extended National Highway 1 from Thanh Hoa to Can Tho. On December 26, a 40km section of the National Highway 1 through the central province of Ninh Thuan opened to traffic. This is the last section of the project to expand the National Highway 1 from Thanh Hoa to Can Tho, with a total length of 1,342 km. The project was implemented in three years. Earlier, the 133 km section between Hanoi and Thanh Hoa was put into operation in 2013. Passing through 20 provinces and cities, the highway has four lanes for motor vehicles and two lanes for others, which can run at the highest speed of 80km/h. 

3/ Ho Chi Minh Highway through the Central Highland (National Highway 14) was completed in July 2015 with a length of 420 km. Passing through the mountains and forest of the Central Highlands, the upgraded Ho Chi Minh Highway erased the "path of suffering" of the past, enabling people to travel easily and boost economic development in the region. 

4/ The three-storey overpass at Hue T-junction in Da Nang City is situated on National Highway 1A. It is the first three-storey overpass in Vietnam. It was built in 16 months, consisting of the ground floor, a roundabout and the third floor. It is able to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.

The total investment in this project is close to VND1,800 billion (nearly $900 million). Technically, the overpass has a total of 491 piles and 50 spans with a total length of over 2 km. Each floor has four lanes. The highlight of this work is the Linga-shaped pillar of 65 meters high and Yoni roundabout, representing Yin and Yang. The roundabout is 150m in diameter. The work is a new symbol of Da Nang. 

5/ Co Chien Bridge: The bridge connecting the Mekong Delta provinces of Ben Tre and Tra Vinh opened to traffic on May 16, reducing the distance between HCMC and Tra Vinh by ten kilometers to 60 kilometers.

The Co Chien Bridge crosses the river of the same name and connects Mo Cay Nam District in Ben Tre and Cang Long District in Tra Vinh. The bridge project has two components. The first, comprising a 1.6-kilometer bridge of four lanes, was built under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) format at a total cost of nearly VND2.3 trillion, with VND1.24 trillion from the investor’s equity and the remainder from the State budget. Financed by the State, the second component worth VND997 billion upgraded 9.39 kilometers of approach road in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh.

After finishing the bridge, the consortium of Civil Engineering Construction Corporation No. 1 (Cienco 1), Tuan Loc Construction Investment Joint Stock Company and NBB Investment Corporation involved in this BOT project can collect tolls for a period of 19 years and three months to recover their capital.

Co Chien is one of four major bridges on National Highway 60. The other three are Rach Mieu, Ham Luong and Dai Nga. It is one of the important links between Highway 60 and highways in the eastern coast corridor of the Mekong Delta, including Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Tra Vinh and Soc Trang provinces.

Before Co Chien Bridge was finished, the distance between HCMC and Tra Vinh through National Highway 1A was 70 kilometers.

6/ 44 railway bridges were completed in 2015. These bridges replaced old ones, which were almost 100 years old and located on prime locations of the North-South railway system of Vietnam. The total investment in this project was more than VND9.2 trillion ($450 million), using Japanese ODA. This project was carried out over many years. The completion of these bridges helped shorten the traveling time of the North-South trains by 2-3 hours.