Mekong Transport Infrastructure Development Project -
Preparation of the Feasibility Study and Preliminary Design, Vietnam
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The overall goal of the Mekong Transport Infrastructure Development Project is to support economic development in the Mekong Delta and to reduce poverty. To achieve this goal, the project aims to improve the supply chain efficiency for production, and for domestic and international trade in the region. It identified and relieved bottlenecks on the main supply chains and better link the poor to that supply chain. In the Mekong Delta these supply chains consist mainly of roads, waterways, and their related infrastructure. During the assignment the feasibility study and preliminary design for roads and waterways have been prepared.
Royal Haskoning studied the waterway network and its position in the abovementioned supply chain. Bottlenecks were identified and measures for improvement proposed. Activities included:
- Review and assessment of the existing conditions of the inland waterway infrastructures
- Bathymetric surveys, traffic count, bridges survey.
- Identification and analysis of bottlenecks in the inland waterway transport infrastructures
- Preliminary design of inland waterway transport improvement measures like waterway deepening, widening, construction of bank protections, lifting/ rehabilitation of bridges, aids to navigation and port improvements measures.
- Modelling of the inland waterway transport and optimizing the impact of waterway improvement measures on transportation costs.
- Preparation of final report
- Preparation of TOR for institutional support to VIWA and MD’s provincial governments in developing and strengthening the capabilities in management and operation, frameworks for private sector participating in the provision of infrastructure and logical services.
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