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Cat Linh-Ha Dong Metro route to go on trial run in December

The Railway Project Management Board under the Ministry of Transport announced that Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line will be put on a 20-day trial run for a final inspection.

The Railway Project Management Board under the Ministry of Transport announced that Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line will be put on a 20-day trial run for a final inspection.


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A train for Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line

The metro line is 13.1km long with elevated sections, 12 stops and 13 trains. Each train has four carriages that can carry 960 passengers. The total investment cost is USD886m.

After the trial period, the contractors and investor must deal with any part that has failed to meet requirements. In order to put the metro line into use, it must be given safety certification by the Vietnam Register, governmental certificate for completion, and then transfer the project to Hanoi authorities.

During the regular government meeting about the progress of Cat Linh-Ha Dong route, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The promised to put the route into use in the first quarter of 2021. They are filling in the positions to run the metro line. The experts of the Chinese general contractor, Engineering-Procurement and Construction and the French experts of the consultancy service are reviewing the system's safety.

According to the ministry, due to Covid-19, the general contractor couldn't send all of the personnel to Vietnam to work on the safety assessment process.