The HCMC People’s Committee has submitted the investment plan to the Standing Committee of the municipal Party Committee, proposing Masterise Long Thanh-Ho Tram Expressway Infrastructure JSC as the developer. The project would be built under a build-transfer (BT) contract, with payment combining land allocations worth more than VND38 trillion ($1.44 billion) and state funding of nearly VND6.3 trillion ($239 million).
The expressway will run more than 42 km, starting at the intersection of HCMC’s Ring Road 4 and heads southeast, skirting residential areas and major reservoirs while cutting through a stretch of the Binh Chau-Phuoc Buu forest reserve, occupying nearly 400 hectare.
Designed for eight lanes at 100 kph with parallel service roads, the road will take less than half an hour.
At present, travelers between the two points must use National Highway 51 and a patchwork of older provincial roads, a journey that typically takes around two hours by car.
Rendering of the Long Thanh-Ho Tram expressway. Photo courtesy of the HCMC Department of Construction |
According to the HCMC People’s Committee, the expressway will link the Ho Tram-Xuyen Moc resort belt directly to Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai Province, maximizing the impact of the national aviation project while boosting coastal tourism, the marine economy, and regional integration.
Long Thanh airport opened for technical flights on Dec. 19, 2025, and is under a hard deadline from Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to begin commercial operations by the fourth quarter of 2026.
Once fully built out, the airport is designed to handle up to 100 million passengers a year, positioning it as one of Southeast Asia’s largest aviation hubs and a direct competitor to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi and Singapore’s Changi.
Ho Tram is already Vietnam’s most developed beachfront resort corridor, anchored by The Grand Ho Tram, the country’s first international integrated resort and casino. The new expressway would make the corridor one of the most accessible premium resort destinations in Southeast Asia by airport-to-beach travel time.
The project is expected to break ground on April 30, Vietnam’s Reunification Day, with completion targeted for 2030.
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