Rach La's 55-Metre Channel Plan Carries a Shoreline Handover Condition

The October plan defines the Tay Ninh workfront

PMU-MW's updated abbreviated resettlement action plan, disclosed by the World Bank on 22 October, covers the Tay Ninh section of Rach La canal under the Southern Waterway Corridors and Logistics Development Project. Its engineering scope gives a 10,218.91-metre reach, correction of one bend to a minimum 320-metre radius and a 705-metre rubble-mound embankment. The stated embankment crest is +2.5 metres in the Hon Dau system. These quantities belong to this section of Rach La within Package A1.

Shoreline works need possession alongside channel access

The plan's January 2026 inventory identifies 4,132 square metres of affected land across six households in Thuan My commune, comprising 3,917 square metres of aquaculture land and 215 square metres of perennial-tree land. Table 9-1 places full compensation and assistance before land acquisition and cleared-site handover. Section 9.2 links contractor access to implementation of the resettlement plan. The bank-protection programme therefore needs a dated release for the affected shoreline, coordinated with excavation at the bend. Sending the dredger to an available channel reach while the bank workfront remains unavailable can change the order of production, plant moves and survey submissions.