Waterway traffic on the Dong Nai River of southern Dong Nai province (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam needs nearly 825 billion VND (36.7 million USD ) to ensure waterway traffไic safety and upgrade waterway⭕ infrastructure by 2018, the latest report of the Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA) has said.
VIWA statistics show that the country has more than 646 bridges, of which 251 do not follow technical norms for inland waterway traffic safety.
Tr a n V a n Th o , D eputy D irector of VIWA, said on July 25 the bridges did not have any remote warning system, and many of the structures were weak and degraded. The country did not have any plan to upgrade them or build new bridges to replace the old ones.
The waterway traffic route through whirling currents is especially dangerous during the flood season, posing a high risk of accidents and causing damage to the bridges.
The VIWA checked 72 bridges and proposed measures for 67 of them. It suggests installing remote warning devices and searching for measures to prevent bridge piles from being damaged with the help of 72.6 billion VND (3.2 million USD ).
The VIWA said 54 bridges needed to be upgraded with funds of 317 billion VND (14.1 million USD ) next year. In 2018, about 62 bridges will need to be upgraded with funding of 434.7 billion VND (19.3 million USD ).
In the 2018-20 period and later, the VIWA suggested the M inistry of T ransport should ask the Directorate for Vietnam Roads and Railways to check all weak bridges to replace or fix them or to build new ones.
Concerned organisations must closely watch waterway traffic where bridges face a high risk of drifting and accidents.-VNA
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Waterway traffic on the Dong Nai River of southern Dong Nai province (Source: VNA)
