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| Delegate Do Van Duong – HCMC. Ho Chi Minh. Picture: Duc Thanh |
Asking the Minister of Transportation and Transport Dinh La Thang on the quality of the Hanoi-Ha Dong railway project, Do Van Duong (Ho Chi Minh City) asked: “The railway project on Hanoi – Ha Dong: this route uses technology of any country, old or new, why progress so slowly, the capital too high so? From the day the cable crane died dead, myself and voters flow through this route very concerned. Does the Minister commit to put the works into operation is absolutely safe? “.
Answering questions asked by deputy Do Van Duong, Minister of Transport and Traffic Dinh La Thang said that the Cat Linh – Ha Dong railway project is to use Chinese loans and Chinese contractors construction. The train is designed at an average speed of 40 km / h and a top speed of 60 km / h and uses the latest technology, the latest technology from China.
In order to ensure safety in the construction process, the Ministry of Transport has approved construction measures and measures to ensure the safety of people traveling, especially in the conditions of construction in the city. winter people pass. Recently, the project has caused a fatal accident, the authorities immediately put into action, the responsibility of the concerned parties and stop construction to check overall, where to ensure security All new construction again.
“In order to ensure the safety of this project not only during the construction phase, we have prepared both during the exploitation and operation process to ensure that the project will be completed in the future. Rule of law, ensure absolute safety. Safety standards are number 1 and then to exploit efficiency, “said Minister Dinh La Thang.
Answering questions from the delegates on the issue of freight rates, Minister Dinh La Thang said that in order to have reasonable freight rates, the Ministry of Transport carried out the Government’s instructions to carry out the reclamation. The transportation sector, which includes three major pillars, is restructuring public investment, restructure state-owned enterprises and restructure transport.
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| Transport Minister Dinh La Thang answered many difficult questions of National Assembly members during the interrogation session of the National Assembly this afternoon. |
“To carry out the restructuring of the shipping industry, we are currently undertaking a one-of-a-kind restructuring of road, rail and air, inland waterways and maritime shipping with the goal of increasing capacity. labor cost, reduce cost. On that basis, reducing freight rates as well as bringing into play the advantages of Vietnam is the sea more than 3,000 km long, with waterways in the Mekong Delta, the Red River Delta, reducing road load, increasing Rail transportation”.
According to the Minister of Transport, through the restructuring of transport, the proportion of road transport has started to decrease, the proportion of inland and inland waterway has increased. Rail transport has increased market share, rail freight rates began to decline. This year, although the price of petrol has increased many times, but rail freight has not increased.
In the long run, to restructure the transport sector, the Ministry of Transport has agreed to what private sector can do is for the private sector to do. At the same time, the equitization of the Vietnam Transport Corporation has been successfully carried out. Previously, Vietnam Airlines from 2011 to now do not increase freight rates.
Answering the question of delegate Truong Minh Hoang (Ca Mau Province) about the road after 40 years of liberation, many communes still do not have roads to the center of the commune, Minister Dinh La Thang admitted is there? Despite these years, the transportation industry is interested in investing a lot. Although the face of transport has improved in recent years, but to become a driving force for socio-economic development should try harder. Minister Dinh La Thang also said that by 2020, the transport sector will connect the entire road system to the center of the country (land).
Answering the question of delegate Nguyen Thi Hong Ha (Hanoi City) on the investment in transport infrastructure, Minister Dinh La Thang said the Party, the Government direct the transport sector on Breakthrough traffic infrastructure as a driving force for the socio-economic development of the country. Meanwhile, we restructure our economy, which focuses on restructure public investment, and the resources for investment in infrastructure development are increasingly limited.
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| Delegate Nguyen Thi Hong Ha (Hanoi City) |
The Ministry of Transport has proposed a number of policy mechanisms to mobilize many resources of the society, private enterprises and investors both domestically and abroad to invest in developing the structure. transportation infrastructure. Therefore, the mobilization of investment capital for transport infrastructure has reached nearly 160,000 billion, equal to 60% of total ODA, budget capital, government bonds investment in the transport sector .
In order to continue to make further breakthroughs, the head of the transport sector said the agency was studying the transfer of infrastructure rights; That is after the investment then transferred to other investors charge. “We see this as one of the breakthroughs that the Ministry of Transport has done, but must do more and more to mobilize these resources for investment in transport infrastructure,” said Thang.
