As you all know, the Transport network in Vietnam consists of the railways, inland waterways, seaways, airways and roads. The allocation of the road network is quite rational. Traffic density is rated to be at the average level compared with the in the region. The inland waterway network consists mainly of the Red River and Cuu Long River Delta. Vietnam is one of the five countries that has the world's heaviest density of inland waterway traffic. It has 3,200 kilometers of coastlines with about 100 ports where ships and vessels can moor.

Looking back at Vietnam's, when the country just emerged from the war, the country's economy plunged into crisis and the transport sector was in bad and weak situation for a long time. The transport infrastructure was neglected and traffic congestion was prevalent. The seaports were used as warehouses to store cargoes and commodities. As to passenger traffic, long lines of people queuing for tickets were seen every where in Vietnam at that time. Incredibly, it sometimes took 2-3 days to travel only 200-300 km. However, in 1988, when Vietnam embarked on a comprehensive renovation (Doi Moi) policy, the transport infrastructure was rightly given importance. Infrastructure investment rate has recently increased from 0.6% of GDP to 1.8 % of GDP. As a result, improvement of infrastructure has been evident as shown by the number of important works undertaken which entailed restoration, upgrading and new construction of infrastructure.

As for transport policy, the Government issued policies which allowed all economic sectors to participate in alleviating transport problems (monopoly among state-owned enterprises, a gap between demand and supply, etc.) However, on the whole, Vietnam's present transport infrastructure would be fairly assessed as poor and undeveloped.