Hai Duong Province - Transportation

Transportation

12 year ago (1997), nobody in Hai Duong Province believe that the agricultural products of Hai Duong Province after a few hours of being transported, could be ready for sale in Ha Noi. But nowadays, it only takes about one hour to go to Ha Noi from Hai Duong. This big change is due to remarkable contribution of the outstanding development in the traffic network.

• In fact, Transport in Hai Duong province develops very fast. During 5 years, the whole land transportation in Hai Duong was upgraded and improved with various project. In 1999, the National Road No5 connecting Ha Noi and Hai Phong was upgraded to the first-class.

• Today's, there are 649 km of roads under the central management including National Road No 5, 18, 183 and 37 that have been completely build or upgraded. These roads are favourable for travelling and goods transportation within the Hai Duong province. Furthermore,there are 11 provincial asphalt land routes 258 km of length as the whole, 27 land routes at district level with total of 352 km of length, of which 70% have been asphalt.

• Besides, Hai Duong has 10 waterways with nearly 300 km of length under the Central management and six ways with 140 km of length under local management. However, most of transport operationson those ways have not been planned yet.
• Hai Duong also has 70 km of railway (including 15 km of railways serving for Pha Lai company)