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The express line would be built as a double-track standard gauge (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)) line, with a design speed of 300 kilometres per hour (190 mph) compared with the existing North–South Railway line which was metre gauge (1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in)) sometimes single track with an average speed of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph).
A Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200ER being catered by Vietnam Air Caterers (since renamed Vietnam Airlines Caterers) at Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Vietnam Airlines Group has at least 20 subsidiaries and affiliates. [146] By the end of its restructuring in 2015, the company planned to have offloaded its stakes in more than 10 enterprises ...
The Ho Chi Minh City–Cần Thơ express railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt cao tốc Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Cần Thơ) is a proposed high speed railway in Vietnam. The line would begin in Ho Chi Minh City , crossing provinces and municipalities of Ho Chi Minh City, Long An , Tiền Giang , Vĩnh Long , Cần Thơ .
As of 2005, approximately 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track was in use throughout Vietnam—2,169 km (1,348 mi) meter gauge, 178 km (111 mi) standard gauge and 253 km (157 mi) mixed gauge. [5] As of 2005, there were 278 stations on the Vietnamese railway network, 191 of which are located along the North-South Railway line. [5] [6]
Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting for 65% of freight moved as of 2006—rail transport accounted for only 4% of freight transportation in 2008, and 5% of passenger transportation, leading it to be considered the "least relevant" of all modes of transport in the European Union's ...
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The North–South railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt Bắc–Nam, French: Chemin de fer Nord-Sud) is the principal railway line serving the country of Vietnam.It is a single-track metre gauge line connecting the capital Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south, for a total length of 1,726 km (1,072 mi).
Pan Am schedules from 1973 show that during the last days of South Vietnam, Boeing 747 service was being operated four times a week to San Francisco via Guam and Manila. [10] Continental Airlines operated up to 30 Boeing 707 military charters per week to and from Tan Son Nhut Airport during the 1968–74 period. [11]