(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Transport will hand over the Cat Linh - Ha Dong urban railway to Hanoi city in May before it is put into commercial use.
 Cat Linh - Ha Dong urban railway (Photo: VNA) |
Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong said that to prepare the handover, his Ministry and Hanoi have agreed that from Wednesday, the Railway Project Management Unit and Hanoi Metro Company will be involved in checking, calculation, and receipt of dossiers, documents, and assets.
Running from Cat Linh in Ba Dinh district to Ha Dong district and funded with Chinese ODA, the project has an elevated line of more than 13 km with 12 stations and 13 trains. Each train, whose designed speed is 80 km/h, has four carriages capable of carrying over 900 passengers.