Some 60% of passengers on Hanoi's Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line, Vietnam's first and only, reported that they use the rail instead of riding motorbikes, while 18% said they ride it instead of using cars.
The Hanoi Railway Company Limited (Hanoi Metro), the operator of the Cat Linh – Ha Dong urban metro line, said it made a profit of over VND13 billion ($510,730) in 2023, nearly six times more than the previous year.
The Hanoi Railway Company, operator of the capital's Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line, Vietnam's first, reported profits of VND8.5 billion (US$360,000) for the first half of this year.
The Cat Linh – Ha Dong metro line, the first in Vietnam, served more than 2.65 million passengers in the first quarter of this year, up 262% year-on-year.
A train on the Cat Linh–Ha Dong metro line in Hanoi had to stop along its route on Saturday morning, forcing around 300 passengers to be transferred to public buses to complete their journey.
Hanoi's Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line had a deficit of VND54 billion ($2.35 million) in its first year in operation. This does not call for any breast beating.
The Cat Linh – Ha Dong metro line in Hanoi, Vietnam's first, carried its millionth passenger Thursday morning just two months since it became operational.