Online auction of railway freight rates
Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company said it has implemented a new business form, auctioning freight rates online.
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Accordingly, to hire freight transport on North-South express trains, customers can register on the company's Egov electronic administrative network and pay the price, the lowest being the listed floor price. Customers can register to buy at least 1 carriage and up to the entire train. The system will automatically select the customer who offers the highest and earliest price.
In the initial phase, the company will sell 1 pair of trains per week. After the operation is stable, it will deploy all the specialized trains simultaneously. These trains have a 50-hour journey, of which, train HH7 departs from Giap Bat station at 22:20 every Friday. Train HH8 departs from Song Than station at 22:00 every Monday. The train consists of covered wagons and container wagons, the minimum length of the train is 18 freight wagons, the total tonnage of the train does not exceed 900 tons.
The company's current listed price for covered carriages: buying less than 5 carriages costs 24,450,000 VND/car/round, from 5 carriages or more costs 24,200,000 VND/car/round.
For container wagons: buy less than 5 wagons for 20,400,000 VND/wagon/round; from 5 wagons or more for 20,200,000 VND/wagon/round.