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# The Ho Chi Minh City metro is officially inaugurated

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The inauguration of the Bên Thành – Suôi Tiên metro line was attended by
Vietnamese and Japanese officials, who provided the funding. This is the first
metro line for Vietnam’s economic capital, two months after its opening on 22
December 2024.

With a length of 19.7km and 14 stations, line 1 of the Ho Chi Minh City metro is
a concrete solution to reduce urban congestion and cut polluting emissions from
transport. It links the Bên Thành market area in the 1st district and the Suôi
Tiên theme park in the town of Thu Duc, in the north-west of the city.

## Over a decade of commitment for SYSTRA

To build this line, SYSTRA worked for 12 years with the Japanese company
Sumitomo and the Korean constructor GS, with a multinational team of experts
responsible for designing the structures, coordinating with the client, and
overseeing the project through to commissioning. Teams from Vietnam, France,
Korea and India worked together to design all the plans for the engineering
structures, comprising 17km of U-shaped viaducts and 11 elevated stations.

SYSTRA was also responsible for each phase of the project, including execution
studies, project management, coordination with the client and supervision of the
project through to commissioning. Users have already embraced this new mode of
transport, with an average of more than 75,000 passengers per day.

![dufour_frederic](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/dufour_frederic-1024x1024.jpg)

> “The metro is the most appropriate mode of transport to meet the mobility
> challenges of this city of over 9 million inhabitants, which is congested with
> surface traffic jams. Eventually, the network should comprise 8 lines, and we
> are putting all our expertise at the service of the Vietnamese authorities to
> support them in the development of their networks.”

**Frédéric Dufour**, Managing Director, SYSTRA Asia

## Serving mobility projects in Vietnam

The inauguration of the Ho Chi Minh City metro comes just a few months after the
inauguration of line 3 of the Hanoi metro, another line designed by SYSTRA in
Vietnam. With projects carried out in Vietnam since 1990, SYSTRA has more than
three decades of experience in the development of transport, whether it be for
the creation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) or metro lines, or for the modernisation
of rail network infrastructure and systems. Our teams are currently acting as
project managers for the underground extension of line 3 of the Hanoi metro, for
which tunnelling began in 2024.

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