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Update news North-South railway
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has requested agencies to assess the feasibility, capital arrangement methods, and expected economic efficiency of the planned North-South high-speed railway.
The North-South high-speed railway line is a large-scale project with a total investment of around $58.7 billion which could facilitate not only cargo transport at an operational speed of up to 200km/h but also reduce travel time
VietNamNet Bridge – Two people have died and ten others injured after a passenger train crashed into a truck in the central province of Thanh Hoa early Thursday morning.
VietNamNet Bridge – The country’s struggling rail transport sector continues to falter, with output and revenues of Viet Nam Railways (VNR) declining considerably, falling short of set targets.
The Ministry of Transport is dusting off three feasibility studies it received three years ago for a high-speed north - south rail following the Government’s approval of a railway development strategy last year.
The message at the Ministry of Transport's meeting yesterday in Da Nang was clear - ministries, agencies, investors and city authorities need to speed up work on the international airport construction and the railway station demolition.
VietNamNet Bridge – The Railway Administration has asked the Ministry of Transport’s appraisal and approval of a $10 billion plan to modernize the North-South railway.
VietNamNet Bridge - Minister Dinh La Thang said that the ministry does not approve of the Vietnam Railway Corporation’s proposal to build a trans-Vietnam one-meter gauge railway, saying that the suggestion was "not new and inappropriate."