HO CHI MINH CITY, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is planning to inspect motorbike exhaust fumes initially in five big cities from 2018, the Vietnam Register said Saturday.
According to the Vietnamese Transport Ministry's scheme on controlling motorbikes' exhaust, some 20,000 motorbikes with cylinder capacity of 175 cubic centimeters or more which are registered in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Can Tho and Hai Phong will be inspected in terms of exhaust from July 2018 once a year with an inspection fee of 60,000 Vietnamese dong (nearly 2.7 U.S. dollars) per vehicle.
Motorbikes with smaller capacity will be inspected in terms of exhaust after 2020.
Riders of motorbikes with no or invalid exhaust inspection stamps will be fined.
According to the latest official statistics, Vietnam currently has nearly 45 million motorbikes. Some 2.7 million motorbikes are sold in Vietnam each year, making it the world's fourth biggest motorbike market, after China, India and Indonesia.
