The train will be tested at Long Binh Depot in District 9 - the repair and maintenance workshop - in the first quarter of next year before being moved to Binh Thai in the third quarter and to Tan Cang in the fourth quarter of the year (Photo: VNA)
It will then be put into trial operation together with all other systems of the metro line, such as power, signal, and track systems (Photo: VNA)
The three-carriage train, one of the 17 for the urban railway, arrived in the city’s Khanh Hoi Port on October 8 from Kasado Port in Japan (Photo: VNA)
The blue train is 61.5 metres in length, three metres wide, and four metres high, with a maximum speed of 110 km/h and seats also of blue (Photo: VNA)
It can carry some 930 passengers, with 783 standing (Photo: VNA)
Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong asks the Management Authority as well as contractors and consultation agencies to work harder together to speed up project progress (Photo: VNA)
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio expresses a belief that the project will contribute to improving traffic conditions in the city, helping to speed up socio-economic recovery after the pandemic (Photo: VNA)
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