HO CHI MINH CITY , VIETNAM (Metro Rail Today): Two more trains with total six carriages for Ho Chi Minh City’s Metro
Line No.1 (Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien) arrived in the city’s Khanh Hoi port
from Japan on June 20 according to different news reports.
The trains, the fourth and fifth out of total 17 trains of the
line, all produced by Japan, will be transported to Long Binh depot in
Thu Duc city for assembly on June 21 and June 23.
Since the first train arrived in the city in October 2020, Japanese contractors have sent five trains to the city according to a media agency.
The 17 trains are designed to serve up to 930 passengers each, with
147 seats. They can run at a speed of 110km per hour on elevated rail
and 80km per hour on underground rail.The 19.7-km line No.1 is the first of at least six to be built in
the city and aims to ease traffic congestion in its north-eastern
gateway.
Including four major bidding packages using official development
assistance (ODA) and funds from the Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA), the project is designed to have 14 stations, three of
them underground.
As of June 18, 86.2 percent of the workload of the Metro Line No.1
project had been completed. The line is expected to be put into
commercial operation next year as per a news agency.
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