During his meeting with Minister of Transport Truong Quang Nghia on Thursday, Da Nang Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Xuan Anh remarked that the transport sector plays a vital role in bolstering the city’s socio-economic progress.  The focus has been on building synchronous infrastructure over recent years.

Under the city’s ongoing campaign ‘The City of 4 Safe Programmes’, which aims to ensure security, traffic safety, food safety and hygiene, and social welfare for local residents, numerous effective measures have been taken to ensure local traffic order and safety.   In particular, there have been more directives on traffic safety, more no-parking signs have been placed along some major local streets, and surveillance cameras have been installed in public locations in order to monitor and deal with traffic violations.

Party Committee Secretary Anh

Secretary Anh also asked the Ministry of Transport to give funds to the city to implement some key projects, including the 2nd phase of the Tien Sa Port expansion, the building of the new Lien Chieu Port, and other local tourism development projects.

With regard to the local transport sector’s main tasks over the 2016 - 2020 period, the emphasis will be on developing urban traffic infrastructure and public transport services, ensuring maintenance work and effective use of local traffic infrastructure systems, and building a traffic safety culture and civilised urban lifestyle.

Transport Minister Nghia

Greater efforts will also be made to diversify the types of transport and promote the development of local port services to make Da Nang a logistics hub in the central region and highlands.  The Da Nang Port will be an important gateway for logistics service supply chains to the ASEAN and Asia-Pacific regions.

The city authorities will take the initiative to appeal for more domestic and FDI inflows into local traffic infrastructure, transport and service development projects.

In reply, Minister Nghia spoke highly of the city’s rapid traffic infrastructure development over recent years.  He emphasised that Da Nang is in a prime location in the central region as it boasts convenient transportation via roads, railways, airways, waterways and seaports.

In preparation for the 25^th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, which will take place in October 2017 in Da Nang, the upgrade of the Da Nang International Airport and the construction of a new terminal there is now underway.

Minister Nghia agreed with the need to construct the new Lien Chieu Port to deal with possible overload problems at the Tien Sa Port in future years.

He also suggested that the present site of Da Nang’s railway station, once the station has been relocated to Lien Chieu District, should be used for socio-economic development purposes, with a priority given to tourism.