Nghe An continues to suspend all types of passenger transport
(Baonghean.vn) - Nghe An Department of Transport has just issued an official dispatch requesting to continue to suspend all passenger transport activities on fixed routes.
On April 15, Nghe An Department of Transport sent an urgent dispatch to transport businesses, bus stations and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to continue implementing urgent measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic according to Directive 16/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister.
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| Currently, there is only one pair of Thong Nhat trains running the entire Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City route. Photo by Viet Phuong |
Accordingly, the Department of Transport requires business units and bus stations to continue to suspend all types of passenger transport on fixed inter-provincial and intra-provincial routes, contracted vehicles, tourist vehicles, taxis, buses, and 4-wheel electric vehicles operating on a pilot basis in the province (except for cases such as vehicles mobilized to serve the transport of quarantined citizens according to the opinion of the Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control of Nghe An province, official vehicles, cases of providing food, foodstuffs, essential necessities, vehicles transporting workers and experts of enterprises, transporting raw materials and production materials).
Mr. Hoang Phu Hien - Director of the Department of Transport said: The suspension time is from 00:00 on April 16, 2020 until there is a new directive document from the Prime Minister, the Provincial People's Committee and implementation instructions from the Ministry of Transport, the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam, the Inland Waterways Administration and the Department of Transport of Nghe An.