New Hanoi-HCMC ‘bullet train’ to cost $56 billion

Published: 07/02/2009 05:00

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A new high-speed express railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City will cost nearly US$56 billion, said experts from the project manager Vietnam-Japan Consulting Joint Venture.

Some $35 billion of the funds will be used to build infrastructure for the North-South Express Railway, said the experts after meetings with the Vietnam Railway Corporation in Hanoi on Friday.

After analyzing three of the world’s most advanced high-speed railways – Japan’s Shinkansen, France’s TGV and Germany’s ICE – the experts suggested following the Shinkansen “bullet-train” model.

The 1,555 kilometer-long route, with 27 stations, will begin at Hanoi Station and end at Hoa Hung Station in HCMC. Trains on the new line will travel at speeds up to 350 km per hour.

A section of the route between Hanoi and Vinh, a town in the central province of Nghe An, as well as a section between HCMC and Nha Trang in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, are both expected to come online in 2020. The whole line is scheduled for completion in 2035.

Source: VNA

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