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TRAVEL RESTRICTED: Passenger numbers being at their lowest since 1979 led to financial losses, which the airport operator said would widen to NT$6.3 billionBy Shelley Shan / Staff Reporter
Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) yesterday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to reforming the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), one day after Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) met with family members of people killed in a Taroko Express train crash in Hualien County in April last year. Wang said that safety and organizational improvements are being implemented, following the incident in which a train hit a crane truck that had fallen from a construction site onto the tracks near the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道). The crash, which left 49 peo...
The Taiwan Railway Labor Union on Wednesday said it might hold a protest and go on strike next month if the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) presents its proposal to transform itself into a state-run corporation to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications without first reaching an agreement with the union. After a derailment of a Taroko Express train in Hualien County on April 2 last year killed 49 people, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材), who took office on April 20, vowed to transform the agency into a state-run corporation within three ye...
Providing drivers with accurate information on traffic conditions during the Lunar New Year holiday is more important than guaranteeing them that they would be able to drive from Kaohsiung to Taipei in a given number of hours, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said on Wednesday. That would help them decide when to start their trips, he added. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications should focus on managing traffic and quickly reacting to changes, Su said. That would include providing the latest information on traffic signals and working with other agencies to clear unforeseen obsta...
Nursing staff deployed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare are to begin reviewing disease prevention practices at international seaports after a COVID-19 cluster infection was reported at the Port of Kaohsiung, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday. The cluster, which affected workers on a container ship docked at the nation’s largest international seaport, had grown to 50 confirmed cases as of yesterday. Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said during an inspection tour of the port that nursing staff dispatched by the health m...