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Tân Cảng Station (Vietnamese: Ga Tân Cảng) is an elevated Ho Chi Minh City Metro station on Line 1 and the future Line 5. Located on Điện Biên Phủ Boulevard in Bình Thạnh District , next to Saigon Bridge , the station opened on 22 December 2024.
The Saigon Naval Shipyard is located immediately north of the quay and stretches as far as the mouth of the arroyo de l’Avalanche. [4] After the departure of the French, the River port was taken over by the Saigon Port Authority (Nha Thương cảng Sài Gòn).
Saigon Bridge, known as Newport Bridge (Cầu Tân Cảng) before 1975, is a bridge crossing the Saigon River, connecting Bình Thạnh District and District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, on the Hanoi Highway. The bridge has four lanes for cars and two lanes for motorcycles and bicycles.
Saigon Port is a network of ports in Ho Chi Minh City. It is a major main port for Vietnam (which has six main sea ports), and the only able to handle post-Panamax ships. The port name is derived from the former name of the city. In 2013, it became the 24th busiest container port in the world. [1]
However, a plan was already underway to construct a new port on the Saigon River upstream from the city. This site, called Newport, was in a sparsely populated area adjacent to Highway 1 and the bridge connecting Saigon with the newly developing Long Binh Post some 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Saigon.
A new 70-meter (230-feet) tall air control tower was put into use in 2013. [40] The new airport control tower is situated in the corner area between the Domestic Terminal and the International Terminal. There were four USAF ATRC facilities in Viet Nam in the 1960-1973 era. The one located on Tan son Nhut was designated Paris ATRC.
A new high-speed railway service is proposed to be connected to the new airport as part of the Ho Chi Minh City–Nha Trang section of the North-South high-speed railway line. The airport planners have suggested to build the high-speed railway line by keeping a station at the airport, as it will give passengers a more direct and efficient ...
Admiral Chung Tấn Cang (July 22, 1926, Gia Định – January 24, 2007, Bakersfield, California) was a commander of the Republic of Vietnam Navy between 1963 and 1965. Cang took command in November 1963 after Captain Hồ Tấn Quyền , a Ngo Dinh Diem loyalist, was executed during the November 1963 coup that led to Diệm's ouster and ...