Tien Phong Newspaper won third prize in the transport industry journalism award.

TPO - The 4-part series "Water transport congestion in the Mekong Delta" by a group of reporters from Tien Phong newspaper was honored to win the third prize in the 5th Transport Journalism Award 2023-2024. At the award ceremony, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang assessed that the series of articles had been carefully invested, had a perspective, and touched on the hot issues of the industry.

On August 27, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) held the 5th Transport Journalism Awards Ceremony. After one year of launching, the award attracted the participation of more than 350 works (an increase of more than 70 works compared to last year) from nearly 70 central and local press agencies.

According to the organizers, this year’s award has nearly 200 long-form series with the participation of many local newspapers. The works are invested in and presented elaborately and attractively in many vivid journalistic forms.

After the preliminary and final rounds, 28 works received high evaluation from the Jury and were selected by the Organizing Committee for awards. Accordingly, there were 2 First prizes, 3 Second prizes, 6 Third prizes and 17 Encouragement prizes.

In this press award, Tien Phong newspaper has a 4-part series: "Water transport congestion in the Mekong Delta " by the group of authors Nguyen Ngoc Tien ( Ha Nhan), Canh Ky, Nhat Huy, Truong Phong, Tan Loc which was awarded Third Prize.

Journalist Nguyen Ngoc Tien - Head of News Department (2nd from right) - representative of Tien Phong newspaper's group of authors received the award.

The series of articles highlights the shortcomings of the Mekong Delta region, which has a large river system and a dense network of canals, but has yet to fully exploit its advantages in waterway transport. Several large projects with a total capital of thousands of billions of VND in the region have not yet welcomed "super ships" to "take delivery"; on the contrary, they still have to use a lot of resources every year for maintenance, repair, dredging, etc.

The series also presents a number of solutions to help the Mekong Delta region remove bottlenecks such as forming a reasonable inland waterway port system, promoting logistics links between localities, establishing warehouses...

At the award ceremony, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang acknowledged and thanked the press agencies for their support over the past time.

Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang assessed that the entries to this year's Award were carefully and seriously prepared, reflecting truthfully and comprehensively, conveying many profound and meaningful messages about the transport industry. Some articles had very new perspectives and approaches, touching on hot and current issues of the transport industry.

Minister Nguyen Van Thang spoke at the award ceremony.

The award-winning works closely followed the process of deploying and implementing the policies of the Party, the State, the direction of the Government , and the Ministry of Transport, encouraging the working spirit of "3 shifts, 4 shifts", "overcoming the sun, overcoming the rain", "through holidays, through Tet" of the officers, engineers, and workers of the transport sector to contribute to creating very impressive achievements in the development of transport infrastructure in recent times.

"There are elaborate series of reports... discovering and deeply criticizing the shortcomings and limitations in mechanisms and policies... thereby contributing many valuable opinions to help the transport sector gradually consolidate and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of State management for the goal of sustainable development of the transport sector, for the national and ethnic interests and the interests of the people," the Minister of Transport expressed.

On this occasion, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang officially launched the 6th Journalism Award for writing about the Transport sector, 2024-2025.

On behalf of the authors and award-winning press agencies, journalist Phung Cong Suong - Editor-in-Chief of Tien Phong newspaper - thanked the leaders of the Ministry of Transport for their attention to communications work and the activities of journalists.

According to journalist Phung Cong Suong, transportation is an essential field, closely linked to the lives of every citizen. Tien Phong newspaper always considers this a key field so that the newspaper can have attractive topics and daily information.

Journalist Phung Cong Suong hopes that the transport sector and transport leaders will always create conditions for reporters to have deeper access to the sector, thereby having more vivid news and articles, delving into the hidden corners of the sector to encourage, cheer and promptly inform readers about the results and achievements of the transport sector.

Duong Hung

Source: https://tienphong.vn/bao-tien-phong-doat-giai-ba-giai-bao-chi-nganh-giao-thong-van-tai-post1667440.tpo