The Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line undertook trial runs from December 12-31, 2020. The pilot operation was closely supervised by Vietnamese agencies and China Railway Sixth Group Co., the project’s general contractor.
A train of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro route on trial run from December 12-31.
Up to 5,700 trips were run during the trial period with a total length of 70,000 kilometres.
The route’s technical reports were basically finished for the line to be put into operation before the 13th National Party Congress as previously mentioned by Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The. The 13th National Party Congress is slated to start on January 25 and end on February 2.
Speaking to Dantri/DTiNews, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong said that the ministry had not yet received the Chinese general contractor’s report on the project’s pilot operation.
“The project has not yet been handed over to Vietnam, so it is impossible for its official operation before the 13th National Party Congress,” Dong noted.
According to Vu Hong Truong, CEO of Metro Hanoi, his company was still holding safety drills on the line. The firm is waiting for the assessments of the pilot run in order to transfer the project.
The project was initially slated to become operational in 2017, but was then delayed many times. The project’s total investment increased to VND18 trillion from the VND8.7 trillion (USD381 million).
