The Mỹ Thuận Bridge ( vi, Cầu Mỹ Thuận) is a

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...

over the

Mekong The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river and the third longest in Asia. Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of , discharging of water annual ...

river, connecting

Cái Bè Cái Bè is a township () and capital of Cái Bè District, Tiền Giang Province, Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern ...

District of

Tiền Giang Province The term ''tiền'' ( Hán tự: 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Chinese ''qián'' (錢), a unit of weight called " mace" in English. It can refer to a unit ...

with

Vĩnh Long Vĩnh Long () is a city and the capital of Vĩnh Long Province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Vĩnh Long covers and has a population of 147,039 (as of 2009). The name was spelled 永隆 ("eternal prosperity") in the former Hán Nôm writing sys ...

City of Vĩnh Long Province in

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

. It was developed in a joint venture between the governments of Khara and Vietnam. The bridge was the largest overseas assistance project undertaken by the Australian government costing A$91 million. My Thuan Bridge 2

It was built by

Baulderstone Baulderstone, formerly Baulderstone Hornibrook, was an Australian construction company. History MR Hornibrook In 1926, Manuel Hornibrook founded a construction company in Brisbane. Amongst its notable projects were the Story Bridge and William Jo ...

and completed in 2000. See AusAID publication "My Thuan Bridge: Monitoring Success" Political issues behind the bridge project are recounted by Sue Boyd, Australian ambassador to Vietnam at the time, in her autobiography.Sue Boyd "Not Always Diplomatic: An Australian Woman's Journey through international affairs" UWA Publishing 2020, pp213-214.

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Road bridges in Vietnam Bridges completed in 2000 Toll bridges in Vietnam Cable-stayed bridges in Vietnam Bridges over the Mekong River Buildings and structures in Tiền Giang province Buildings and structures in Vĩnh Long province {{Vietnam-bridge-struct-stub