Vietnam’s Directorate for Roads has announced that the country will see the construction of approximately 4,145 bridges between 2016 and 2021.

Scheduled to be completed in 2018, three major bridges will be built in the country under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model. These include the construction of a 3.26km-long Chau Doc Bridge, 0.86km-long Dai Nghia Bridge No 1, and 2.24km-long Dai Nghia Bridge No 2.

"Three major bridges will be built in the country under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model."

The Chau Doc Bridge will run between the towns of Tan Chau and Chau Doc in An Giang Province, while the Dai Nghia Bridges one and two will help improve the road connection between the Tra Ving and Soc Trang provinces, reported Worldhighways.com.

Besides these major projects, several small bridge and road development projects will require $408.9m, about $385m of which would be a loan taken from the World Bank. The central government has sanctioned $13.2m while the remaining $10.7m will come from local budgets, reported Vietnamnews.com.

According to the Directorate of Roads general director Nguyen Van Huyen, the loan taken from the World Bank will be utilised to construct about 2,200 small bridges in 50 remote mountainous regions.

The money from the central government will be used to develop roads in 14 provinces that have high-poverty levels. Most of these regions are located in the northern and coastal central parts of the country.

The local budget will be used for land clearance costs.

The first phase of the project featured the development of 186 suspension bridges in 28 mountainous provinces in the north, central and central highland regions last year, while the second phase will include 295 suspension bridges and 3,664 cement bridges, which will be completed by 2021, reported Vietnamnews.com.