The Ministry of Construction requires the Vietnam Road Administration to direct its affiliated units to proactively deploy the work of overcoming the consequences of floods, ensuring safety for people and vehicles traveling on national highways and expressways.
Continue to focus on inspecting and reviewing areas at risk of flooding, landslides, and flash floods to have solutions to handle and remote traffic flow.
Arrange forces to guard and guide traffic at locations that are deeply flooded and flooded, especially through culverts, spillways, ferry terminals, and pontoon bridges; assign guards, put on buoys, barriers, and signals at locations with deep flooding, spillways, broken sections of roads, landslides, etc., resolutely not allowing people and vehicles to pass when there is still a risk of not ensuring safety.
For locations with large landslides and slides causing traffic congestion, direct road management and maintenance units to coordinate with localities to immediately deploy remote diversion plans, promptly fix the problem, mobilize maximum machinery, equipment and human resources in the area to ensure traffic opening in the fastest time.
Note that it is necessary to ensure the safety of forces and vehicles participating in overcoming flood incidents on traffic routes.
Proactively, be ready to support and coordinate with the Department of Construction of localities with national highways that are facing traffic congestion to urgently overcome them, ensuring the opening of the route as soon as possible, especially on main traffic routes and routes serving rescue work.
The Ministry of Construction also requested the Vietnam Railway Authority and Vietnam Railway Corporation to direct railway management and maintenance units to continue to strictly implement the patrol and maintenance regime for works, vulnerable locations, and key areas such as: Bridges and weak roads that are prone to flooding; areas that are prone to flash floods, steep mountain pass sections often have fallen rocks, soil, railway areas downstream of dykes, irrigation dams, and reservoirs.
Direct units to focus on means, materials, equipment and human resources to overcome the consequences of floods and ensure smooth traffic in the fastest time.
The Vietnam Maritime and Waterway Administration and Vietnam Maritime Safety Corporation must urge management and maintenance units of flows and routes to urgently review and count buoys and signals lost or drifted due to storm No. 10. Timely re-deploy the buoy system and signals immediately after floods.
Direct affiliated units, management and maintenance units of the route to regularly inspect, review, and request watercraft not to anchor near river crossing works; regularly monitor and grasp the situation if vehicles are found drifting, and promptly notify the authorities for handling.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam directs airlines and aviation service airlines to closely monitor weather developments in areas affected by storms and floods to adjust or change flight schedules accordingly to ensure absolute safety of flight operations.
Direct units to strengthen inspection of airports, terminals, communication systems, flight operations and command to promptly detect and handle incidents.
The Department of Economics - Construction Investment Management directs Project Management Boards, investors, construction contractors, and related units to ensure safety of construction works and prevent landslides during the flood season; at the same time, deploy response work to rain and floods, prepare conditions to promptly overcome construction incidents, coordinate to ensure smooth traffic on routes that are both under construction and exploitation.
The Department of Construction of localities in areas affected by natural disasters closely coordinates with local levels and sectors, Road Management Zones and units managing and maintaining roads, railways and waterways to proactively overcome incidents caused by storms and floods, conduct traffic flow, ensure traffic on roads and waterways assigned to management; coordinate with the road, railway, maritime and waterway sectors in managing transportation, increasing congestion, and transporting passengers and goods when required.
