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Railway companies temporarily suspend train routes

The Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company has temporarily suspended the operation of several routes due to a shortage of passengers.
Railway companies temporarily suspend train routes ảnh 1The Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company will temporarily suspend a number of trains due to a lack of passengers.(Photo tienphong.vn)

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) -The Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company has temporarily suspendedthe operation of several routes due to a shortage of passengers. 

The trains include the SE35/36 trains, travelling between Hanoi and Vinh cityand vice versa; and the SP1/2 trains, travelling from Hanoi to Lao Cai cityand vice versa.

The company will stop thedaily operation of the YB3/4 trains, travelling from Hanoi to Yen Bai and viceversa. The trains will only run at the weekend (from Hanoi on Saturday andfrom Yen Bai on Sunday).

All passengers that bought tickets on these trains will be able to exchangethem or get a refund, the company said.

The Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company also said ithas temporarily halted the operation of some trains for the samereason, the Tien Phong (Vanguard)online newspaper reported.

Specifically, the SQN1/2trains, running on the HCM City – Quy Nhon route, as well as the SPT1/2 trains,running on the HCM City – Phan Thiet route, will only run on Friday, Saturdayand Sunday every week. On other days, they will be suspended.

Dao Anh Tuan, general director of the Saigon Railway Transport Joint StockCompany, said the number of passengers had fallen by half compared to the sameperiod last year due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Thousands of train tickets were returned because travel firms cancelled tours,he said.

“The initial damage to our company has reached about 40 billion VND (1.7million USD),” he added.

Phung Thi Ly Ha, deputy general director of the Hanoi Railway Transport JointStock Company said about 26,000 train tickets were returned since the outbreakof COVID-19.

It was predicted that passenger-transport revenue of the company wouldfall by half in both February and March compared to the same period last year,she said.

It was hard to talk about the resumption of the trains’ operation becauseit depended on the number of passengers, she said./.
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