Freight transport estimated at around 191 million tonnes in February
Vietnam’s freight transport was estimated at nearly 191 million tonnes in February, up 27.8% year-on-year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Transport.
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s freight transport was estimated at nearly 191million tonnes in February, up 27.8% year-on-year, according to statistics fromthe Ministry of Transport.
Aviation led in terms of growth with a rate of50%, followed by waterway with 43%, road 24.6%, and navigation by 17.6%. Meanwhile,the volume of goods transported by rail decreased by 7.5%.
In the month, the number of passengers transported reached 363.6million, up 23.7% year-on-year. Of the total, maritime transport rankedfirst in terms of growth with a rate of 61%, followed by aviation (nearly 60.7%),railway (nearly 59%), waterway (57.5%) and road (20.6%).
The Ministry of Transport said that in the first two monthsof this year, it worked closely with the Ministry of Public Security, other ministries,sectors and localities to take concerted measures to ensure traffic order andsafety and tighten the management of transport activities.
Along with these measures, in March, the ministry will promotethe application of information technology in transport management andeffectively exploit data from cruise monitoring devices of transport businessvehicles./.
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During seven days of the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet), the transport capacity and quality of road transport services improved drastically, said an official at a January 31 meeting of the Ministry of Transport.
The on-time performance (OTP) of Vietnamese airlines stood at 95.3% in January, down 0.9 percentage points from the previous month, while the number of flights increased 15.6%, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
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