Atlas Corridor
Component

Vientiane-Vang Vieng Expressway

road

Cities

Vientiane
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Vang Vieng
Lao People's Democratic Republic

Distance

113km
new
113km
rehabilitated
– km
existing
– km

Cost

$1.3b
$1,300,000,000

Phases

operational, 2020

Objective

Description

Construction of Laos’s first expressway, a roughly 109–110 km four-lane toll road from Vientiane to Vang Vieng with interchanges, bridges and twin tunnels through Phoupha Mountain. It is the first completed section of the planned Vientiane–Boten China–Laos Expressway.

Finance

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$150000000 loan
China Development Bank Development bank
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$200000000 loan
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Bank
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$80000000 loan
Exim Bank of China Development bank
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$ investment
Yunnan Construction and Investment Holding Group Co.,LTD Company

Operators

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Yunnan Construction and Investment Holding Group Co.,LTD
Company