The Vinh Hao - Phan Thiet and Nha Trang - Cam Lam expressway projects under the construction investment project of the North-South Expressway East in the 2021-2025 period are in the final stages of completion before being opened to traffic.
The Vietnamese railway sector should identify major pillars to grow further in 2023, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Danh Huy said at a recent conference held by Vietnam Railways (VNR).
Climate change is becoming more and more severe, mainly due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions from socio-economic development activities; therefore, Ho Chi Minh City has urban planning for low-carbon sustainable development.
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi allocated US$11,6 million to training 270 civil servants as Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh has just approved the project ‘Training and fostering to improve the quality of civil servants and public employees in Hanoi in the period of 2022 - 2025 and orientation to 2030’.
Minister of Planning and Investment of Vietnam, Chairman of the Vietnam-Laos Cooperation Committee Nguyen Chi Dung and his counterpart from Laos Khamjane Vongphosy co-chaired a workshop to discuss investment and cooperation promotion between the two countries in Vientiane, Laos this morning.
The SGGP Newspaper, on November 1, reported that the Ministry of Transport announced the railway network plan for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050. After that, the newspaper also raised the question of prioritizing the selection of projects with efficiency, playing as leverage for regional development. Feedback from readers, including many experts and managers, shows that these projects need to be implemented quickly to solve the problem of overload and high logistics costs for the whole Southern region.
According to the railway network planning in 2030 with a vision to 2050 recently announced by the Ministry of Transport, the North-South high-speed railway project will be prioritized investment in two sub-projects, namely the Hanoi - Vinh and Ho Chi Minh City - Nha Trang. Some bidding packages of these two projects are expected to start construction in 2028 and be put into operation in 2035. However, there are many opinions that it is necessary to prioritize investment in urgent and more effective railway lines.
The Department of Transport of HCMC announced that the city's transportation will be conducted in the following four levels to ensure the implementation of effective Covid-19 prevention and control measures under the Government’s resolution No. 128.
One of the big shortcomings, weakening the competitiveness of Vietnamese goods not only in foreign markets but also in the domestic market, is the high transportation costs. This needs to be resolved immediately when several free trade agreements between Vietnam and many countries take effect.
The production and revenue of the Vietnam Railways Corporation (VRC) in 2019 failed to meet its plan and were much lower than those in the same period in the previous year. At the same time, the prospects of the railway industry remain pessimistic for the following years.
The central Student Union of Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training yesterday jointly ran a program to help needy students who are going to sit for the national examination.
The National Traffic Safety Committee yesterday announced in seven days of Tet festival, 218 traffic accidents killed 195 people and injured 199 others, a year-on-year decrease of 41 percent on accidents, 4 percent on deaths and 52 percent on injured people.