As of March 9, the retail price of RON95 gasoline in Việt Nam stood at VNĐ27,047 (US$1.04) per litre, compared with about VNĐ31,000 per litre in Cambodia and VNĐ39,000 per litre in Laos.
The Ministry of Transport will bring to a close the pilot scheme for electronic contract-based passenger transportation, popularly known as ride-hailing services, on March 31.
Local exporters are facing additional pressure from rising marine
transport costs charged by foreign shipping firms, which has led to
Vietnamese exports becoming less competitive.
Viet Nam''s consumer price index (CPI) fell in November 2014 by 0.27 per
cent month-on-month largely because of decreasing transport costs, the
General Statistics Office (GSO) revealed yesterday.