Two more trains Metro Line No.1 arrives in HCM City
The sixth and seventh trains for Ho Chi Minh City’s Metro Line No.1 (Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien) with six carriages in total arrived in Khanh Hoi port of the city on July 13.
The sixth and seventh trains for Ho Chi Minh City’s Metro Line No.1 (Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien) arrive in Khanh Hoi port of the city on July 13 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The sixth and seventh trains for Ho Chi MinhCity’s Metro Line No.1 (Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien) with six carriages in total arrivedin Khanh Hoi port of the city on July 13.
According to the HCM City Urban Railway ManagementBoard (MAUR) - the investor of the project, the unloadingof the metro carriages is performed at the port before being transported toLong Binh depot in Thu Duc city forassembling on July 14 and 16.
Since the first train arrived in the city inOctober 2020, Japanese contractors have sent seven trains to the city.
Theall 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 onunderground rail.
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The19.7-km line No.1 is the first of at least six to be built in the city andaims to ease traffic congestion in its north-eastern gateway.
Includingfour major bidding packages using official development assistance (ODA) andfunds from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the project isdesigned to have 14 stations, three of them underground.
The2.05 billion USD line is the first of at least six to be built in the city./.
The completion of Metro Line No1 project in Ho Chi Minh City linking Ben Thanh Market in District 1 with Suoi Tien Tourist Park in District 9 is likely to be delayed to after 2021, the municipal Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) has stated.
Two more trains, to be used for Metro Line No 1 connecting Ben Thanh Market in District 1 and the Suoi Tien Theme Park in District 9 in Ho Chi Minh City, arrived in the city's Khanh Hoi port in District 4 on May 10.
Japanese contractor Hitachi on May 11 completed the installation of all three passenger carriages of train No. 2 onto a trial track at a depot of Ho Chi Minh City’s Metro Line No.1 between Ben Thanh Market and Suoi Tien Theme Park.
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.
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The sixth and seventh trains for Ho Chi Minh City’s Metro Line No.1 (Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien) arrive in Khanh Hoi port of the city on July 13 (Photo: VNA)
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