COVID-19 epidemic: Standing still because the bus left the station: Due to customers or businesses

The COVID-19 epidemic re-emerged with a more complicated trend, causing people's travel by public transport in bus stations to decrease deeply.

Parked and waited for customers in Nuoc Ngam bus station from 14:00, but by 5:00 p.m., the car had not picked up a single customer, driver Nguyen Van Dung, Nam Quynh Anh bus operator running the Hanoi - Nghe An route, expressed that on the occasion of Tet, but The car is "negative" all the time, no guests coming out, no guests coming back. Due to fear of the epidemic, passengers who book tickets and return them do not go anymore. The car was empty but still had to leave the station on time (18 o'clock) still had to run, the car was empty, the garage had a lot of holes, so I was very worried.

With 20 "cars" operating at My Dinh wharf, normally every 15 minutes, Sao Viet garage - the transportation brand of Minh Thanh Phat Co., Ltd. has a turn of cars leaving the station to Lao Cai. However, since the New Year of the Ox until now, this frequency has been increased to 120 minutes (2 hours) by the bus company, but only 1 turn of the bus leaves the station, but there are still no customers. Due to no customers, from the beginning of the year until now, from 20 times of cars leaving the station per day, Sao Viet garage now only maintains 5 cars / day, down 75%.

With the passenger car segment, Mr. Nguyen Van Bang, Director of Minh Thanh Phat Co., Ltd. said, in order to prepare for the peak occasion of Tet and spring travel after Tan Suu Tet, the last quarter of 2020, Minh Co., Ltd. Thanh Phat has invested in 10 most modern passenger cars. However, from the beginning of 2021 until now, the epidemic broke out again, the newly invested car lot of Sao Viet garage must now be in the yard, not yet allowed to carry tourists.

Referring to the investment cost of the above vehicle, Mr. Bang said, with a value of 4.2 billion VND / vehicle, the unit had to spend 42 billion VND for the above 10 cars. "In order to raise this amount, 70% of the above capital we have to borrow from a bank. According to the contract committed with the bank, the Company is responsible for paying both principal and interest within 48 months (4 years). So, although the car is not running, but now on average, both the interest and the principal of the unit are paid to the bank 900 million each month.

With Viet Thanh Transport Co., Ltd., there are currently more than 30 vehicles operating at My Dinh wharf, mainly running Quang Ninh and Hai Phong routes, when the epidemic broke out, all these vehicles had to stop working after Tet. motion.

70% of garages leave the station

On February 25, present at My Dinh bus station, many areas are often crowded with passenger cars to queue for routes such as Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Thai Nguyen, and Quang Ninh... but yesterday afternoon there were only a few passenger cars. . Some cars parked until the end of the waiting time in the station but still no customers. In areas with signposts for vehicles running on routes such as Lao Cai, Quang Ninh, Tuyen Quang... there are still no vehicles in operation.

Ly Truong Son, director of My Dinh bus station, said that normally, the station has 900 departures/day, but in the past two weeks, there have been only about 400 to 500 departures/day (a decrease of about 50%).

Along with the principal and bank interest payments due to investment in car purchases, most passenger transport businesses are still facing the risk of being fined and cut off by the Hanoi Department of Transport for leaving the station more than 30% of the operating frequency. . Representatives of many businesses said that this is a force majeure situation because the wharf has no customers to stop operating, not the business itself abandoning the wharf.

Mr. Bui Danh Lien, Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Transport Association, said that on February 25, the Association had a meeting and reached an agreement to submit a written request to the Department of Transport, the People's Committee of Hanoi and the Ministry of Finance. , the State Bank and responsible agencies to support transport enterprises to overcome difficulties. Specifically, during the time of the COVID-19 epidemic, it is necessary to loosen or remove the regulations on fines for monitoring the number of vehicles operating at the station according to the chart; Debt relief for transport businesses...

Along with the principal and bank interest payments due to investment in car purchases, most passenger transport businesses are still facing the risk of being fined and cut off by the Hanoi Department of Transport for leaving the station more than 30% of the operating frequency. . Representatives of many businesses said that this is a force majeure situation because the wharf has no customers to stop operating, not the business itself abandoning the wharf.

Director of Hanoi Bus Station Joint Stock Company Nguyen Anh Toan said that before the complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic, the company had built a plan to serve Tet, requiring bus stations and transport enterprises to strictly implement the direction of the Central and the city on the prevention of the COVID-19 epidemic as well as coordinate with the functional forces and transport enterprises to ensure the security and order situation, prevent traffic jams and prevent traffic jams. to fully meet the travel needs of the people, minimizing the risk of COVID-19 disease transmission

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