The Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway began a trial run today morning.

Cracks and other signs of degradation have been found on two runways in HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport and Hà Nội’s Nội Bài International Airport.

The Government Inspectorate of Việt Nam has found a series of violations by the Ministry of Transport and the Quy Nhơn provincial administration during the period of 2010-15 in regards to the equitisation process of the Quy Nhơn Port.

Construction work on eastern section of the North-South Expressway will start next year, and is scheduled to finish by 2021, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) announced yesterday.

Ministry of Transport and Hải Phòng City People’s Committee on Monday launched a pilot programme on passenger transportation on route Hải Phòng – Hà Nội – Kunming, aiming to promote the cross-border route between Việt Nam and China.

The North-South Highway will be around 2,100km long, run through 32 provinces and be built in three stages.

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Prime Minister to invest in a section of the North-South Expressway from Ninh Bình Province to Thanh Hóa under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP).

A temporary road, worth VNĐ4.5 billion (US$193,500), will be urgently built to serve travelling demand of vehicles via a section of Nội Bài – Lào Cai Expressway in the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái’s Trấn Yên District.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has agreed to a change of plan on the Nghĩa Lộ Road connecting the Nội Bài-Lào Cai Expressway, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

The Ministry of Transport plans to open new routes for commercial flights from nations that send tourists to Việt Nam to develop tourism into one of the country’s main economic sectors.