Ho Chi Minh city administration has authorised the Sai Gon Transportation Mechanical Corporation (SAMCO) and the Sai Gon Bus Joint-Stock Company to set up a pilot programme to use CNG fuel for the city’s bus fleet. The programme advances plans first mooted in January 2009, which have progressed slower than expected due to a shortage of capital. It will offer preferential interest rates to transport companies so they can purchase CNG-powered buses.
Reported by VietNamNet Bridge, Duong Hong Thanh, deputy director of HCM City’s Transport Department, said if the programme was implemented on schedule the city would have 20 CNG buses on the streets by the end of the year.
Doan Van Nhuom, director-general of the Southern Liquefied Petroleum Gas Joint-Stock Company, said next month the company would set up a CNG main station in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province to supply the fuel to its subsidiary stations. In September, a subsidiary station will be set up at the Sai Gon Bus Company in HCM City. The two stations would be built at a cost of VND100 billion (US$5.6 million).
Other subsidiary stations will apparently be built in HCM City, and Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces to save time and cost for transporting clean fuel to stations.
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