This year has been identified as the time for Vietnam to complete the goals of the 13th National Party Congress and the socio-economic development plan for 2021-2025, Minister of Transport Tran Hong Minh affirmed that the transport sector is determined to fulfill its assigned tasks.
Additional funding should be allocated to the Ministry of Transport of Malaysia to address the shortage of skilled workers in the automotive sector, especially electric vehicles (EVs), an expert has said.
In just the past two years, the transport sector has achieved a miracle as a series of component projects of the Eastern North-South Expressway have been completed and put into operation, transforming the country's transportation landscape.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 28 asked the transport sector to pay more attention to infrastructure development, considering this as a key, priority task in 2024.
The biometric authentication system for passengers who use electronic identity cards in the aviation security check process is scheduled to be deployed simultaneously at airports from November 2023, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
The transport sector carried over 2.17 billion passengers in the first half of 2023, up 15.9% year-on-year, heard a conference hosted by the Ministry of Transport in Hanoi on July 10.
The transport sector has carried 3.35 billion passengers in the past 11 months, a surge of 48.7% year on year, according to Chief of the Office of the Ministry of Transport Nguyen Tri Duc.
Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The said each project is subject to supervision, and that while the duration of construction could be shortened, it should not be at the cost of quality.
Despite important achievements in transport infrastructure development towards a synchronous and modern direction over the past years, transport systems have still been a bottleneck in the country’s path to industrialisation and modernisation, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has said.
Deputy Minister of Transport Le Anh Tuan has recently issued a document asking transport departments, railways, and airlines to enhance safety measures as travel demand increases for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday while the COVID-19 situation becomes more complicated.
The Indonesian government on April 9 announced a plan to support locals affected by the disruption of operations in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The transport sector needs to issue separate circulars to manage coastal transport operations for cargo ships, especially bulk cargo ships, a type of ship that runs off the coast and on rivers.
The transport and logistics sectors made significant progress last year, including a fall in traffic accidents, experts agreed during an online conference on January 2.
The People’s Committee of the southern province of Dong Nai has announced a list of 12 infrastructure projects calling for investment worth more than 1.2 billion USD in total.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has affirmed that the Government will continue partnering with the transport sector to promptly clear its obstacles, making it a vanguard in socio-economic development.
A work plan for 2019 to help Ho Chi Minh City review its climate change policies and update action plans was agreed at the final workshop of a Japan International Cooperation Agency technical cooperation project.
The Transport Ministry wants to transfer some administrative services to private enterprises and organisations, and has been developing a plan to achieve this.
