Ho Chi Minh City has accelerated a series of key infrastructure projects to put them into operation soon.

Vietnamese airline Vietjet and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Laos on July 11 announced an agreement to boost air transport connectivity between Vietnam and Laos.

Representatives from the Vietnamese provinces of Lao Cai, Ha Giang, Lai Chau and Dien Bien on July 10 attended a meeting with their counterparts from China’s Yunnan province to discuss transport cooperation between the two sides.

Developing charging stations for electric vehicles (EV) is an important part of the country’s scheme to promote the use of EVs in Vietnam to build a green transport system, according to insiders.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Department of Transport hosted an inauguration ceremony of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) on July 4, with the aim of effectively ensuring traffic order, reducing travel time and costs, whilst protecting the environment.

VOV.VN - The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department said on July 1 that they had smashed a major drug trafficking ring operating from Germany to Vietnam, seizing approximately 179kg of the synthetic drug – the largest ever seizure of its kind via air transport.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the Vietnam-China cooperation conference on strategic transport infrastructure development and the role of the two countries’ enterprises, in Beijing on June 27.

VOV.VN -The World Bank (WB) has approved a US$107 million credit aimed at strengthening the capacity, efficiency, and overall safety of inland waterways in the nation’s southern region, while also aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector.

There is no legal basis at the moment to consider proposals related to raising the foreign ownership ratio in aviation transport businesses to 49% of the charter capital, said the government agency.

Building inland waterway transport in Vietnam, supporting the development of low carbon transport and connecting ethnic minorities and farmers to the Greater Mekong Subregion economic corridor are some of the significant achievements of the Australia-funded programme Aus4Transport. After more than six years, US$20 million programme will be wrapped up late this month.