As traffic in the north came to a halt, the ministry turned its focus southward and banned the transport of 20 and 40-foot containers on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. Citing a lack of progress in negotiations with its Vietnamese partner, the firm abandoned the planned construction project to boost the port's container-handling capacity 25 times by the end of the decade. A number of outside analysts attribute some of the recent transportation woes to a dispute among government ministries. They view the problem as a row between the Ministry of Transportation, which sets traffic guidelines, and the Traffic Police, which handles enforcement. Bureaucratic turf battles are common everywhere.
Vietnamese officials are the government, they are the party.
They possess a complete monopoly on all political, and hence economic, power. Similar to Mafia families, groups within the ruling class have significant financial interests which they fervently defend. One is to be caught up in a simmering rivalry. If there really was a police-ministry of transportation row, then the drivers of container trucks suffered due to this relatively mild explanation. More likely, the container truck drivers got singled out for a more simple reason.