[1] It crosses the Co Chien River connecting the Mo Cay Nam district of Ben Tre province with the Cang Long district of Tra Vinh Province along Vietnam's National Highway 60.
[2] It 3.6 kilometers downstream from the Co Chien Ferry Terminal that it was designed to supplement.
[5] The cantilever bridge was completed in 2015, after 21 months of construction and 15 months ahead of the schedule (not including work on the cable-stayed design) at a cost of 2.3 trillion VND(US$106.2 million) [2] The bridge has decreased the travel distance between Tra Vinh and Ho Chi Minh City by 60 kilometers,[2] compared to the route through Co Chien Ferry Terminal.
Its opening has increased traffic to Tra Vinh Province, boosting tourism and land development.
[6] Additional roads have been planned to feed into the bridge, which have stalled due to a dearth of sand for construction in the region.