Railway industry turning to foreign investment

The Vietnamese railway industry is striving to make itself more appealing to investors to serve its future development plans. Vu Anh Minh, chairman of Vietnam Railways, the state-owned operator of all railways in the country, discussed the plan to seek foreign strategic partners and the neccesary specified incentives to leverage private investment with VIR's Bich Thuy.  

Laos learns about experience of Vietnam's railway development

A Laotian delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Bounthong Chitmany paid a working visit to state-owned Vietnam Railways (VNR) on July 27 to learn about the management and development of the railway system to prepare for its future projects.  

VNR to offer new conveniences in 2018

Vietnam Railways (VNR) will institute improvements in service quality and infrastructure to compete with the civil aviation and road transport sectors in 2018.  

VNR and VNPost shake hands on logistics cooperation

Vietnam Railways (VNR) and Vietnam Post Corporation (VNPost) signed a cooperation agreement on logistics services yesterday.    

Petrolimex and VNR boost comprehensive cooperation

Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) and Vietnam Railways (VNR) will strengthen cooperation in investment and business activities in the future.  

Vietnam Railways: "All for customers"

With the business motto of "Safety - Friendly - Convinient - Punctuality - Effect" and the principle of operation "All for customers", Vietnam Railways constantly improve the quality of equipment and services to bring the customers comfort because "the customers' satisfaction is the measure of success".

UIC had new Chairman

The Executive Board and 87th General Assembly of the International Union of Railways (UIC) were held on 1 December in Paris, in connection with the “Train to Paris” international campaign coordinated by UIC before the opening of the United Nations’ COP 21 Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Install OBU on locomotives - Project Modernize Operations Control Center (OCC)

After completing the training course for advanced users of the IVU.rail software, OBU (On board unit) devices are being installed on 392 existing locomotives in 5 Locomotive Factory: Hanoi, Yen Vien,  Vinh, Da Nang and Saigon.

Railway Box brings more facilities to the customers

On September 28th, 2015, Vietnam Railways and Hanoi Telecom signed a memorandum of cooperation to develop online utility services called Railway Box. 

Vietnam Railways Innovation Award 2014

Vietnam Railways Innovation Award 2014 was held on September 22nd, 2015. This award attracted many employees. All the topics under four majors: Rolling stock, Infrastructures, Signal telecommunication and Information Technology.