North-South railway officially reopens after many days of being 'paralyzed' by floods

The North-South railway reopened after many days of being cut off by floods and rain.

According to information from Vietnam Railway Corporation , the North-South railway section through the South Central region officially opened at 8:30 p.m. tonight (November 25) after units made efforts to urgently complete the repair of railway infrastructure heavily affected by floods.

Over the past 4 days, more than 1,000 workers and many machines have been mobilized to work continuously to handle 61 damaged points on the section from Dieu Tri station ( Gia Lai ) to Thap Cham station (Phan Rang - Khanh Hoa).

After the route is opened, the train will run at a speed of about 5 km/h to ensure safety, then gradually increase to 15 km/h.

During a field inspection of flood-damaged locations on the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City railway line in Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa provinces on the afternoon of November 25, Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Danh Huy acknowledged and highly appreciated the sense of responsibility and efforts of the collective, officers and workers of the units under the Vietnam Railway Corporation in promptly handling landslides and severely damaged locations.

“Many damaged locations have been repaired by the maximum human resources and machinery mobilized by the Railway sector units, and early load testing has been organized, contributing to ensuring the goal of opening the North-South route in the near future,” Deputy Minister Nguyen Danh Huy assessed.

According to VNR’s report, due to the impact of floods and rains, from November 17-24, the Railway industry announced the suspension of 65 passenger trains on the route. Many passengers returned their train tickets, with the number of returned tickets for the affected trains being more than 25,200, equivalent to 17.6 billion VND.

While trains are waiting along the way, the railway serves free meals to passengers at a cost of about 623 million VND, including more than 10,500 main meals and more than 6,700 side meals.

Freight transport also suffered heavy losses due to the suspension of trains. 34 special trains alone had to stop running, with total estimated transport costs of more than 9.5 billion VND.

In addition, freight trains are having to stop along the way and wait for plans at departure stations. Some customers transporting consumer goods and food have canceled their orders for rail transport. Cargo vehicles on trains are scheduled to be unloaded and transported by road to meet the schedule, resulting in many additional costs.

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