Hai Phong is served by an important transportation network of sea routes, roads, railways, and airlines.

Road: The National Highway No.10 links Hai Phong to the provinces of Quang Ninh, Thai Binh and Thanh Hoa. Hai Phong is 102km from Ha Noi.

Airlines: There are connecting daily flights with Ho Chi Minh City, departed from Cat Bi Airport.

Railway: There are trains from Ha Noi to Hai Phong and vice versa.

Boat: Daily ferries from the dock on Ben Binh St. for other destinations.The ferry runs from Hai Phong to Cat Ba Island several times a day. The hydrofoil boats run between Hai Phong - Cat Ba and Hai Phong - Hon Gai. The high-speed air-condition Thong Nhat Boat leave daily from Hai Phong to Cat Ba.

Airway

Hai Phong has only one civil airport which is Cat Bi International Airport, the first northern airport built by French colonial government to serve military purposes originally. The airport is located 5 km from the city center. The airport was officially opened for civil operations in 1985 and has been regularly upgrading since the liberation of the North in 1955.

Vietnam Airlines has recently launched Hai Phong and Da Nang route with seven flights a week. The airport also used to operate Haiphong - Macao flights (chartered) and Haiphong - Paris flights (during the war).

Marine port system

Hai Phong has a strategic position as the gateway to the sea connecting the Northern Vietnam to the world. Therefore, the local port system was paid much attention to build very early. In the late 19th century, early 20th century, Hai Phong was built by the French as a Pacific center of commerce, finance and most especially a notable sea port. Early 20th century, the port of Hai Phong had close relationships with a number of major ports in South East Asia, Asia, Oceania, North America, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and North European Sea etc.

Haiphong port cluster is of national-level. Along with Saigon Port, it is one of Vietnam's largest seaport systems under the Government’s renovation scheme. Hai Phong Port is located on a sea transport route connecting Singapore to Hong Kong and other ports of South East Asia and North East Asia.

Along with the seaports, Haiphong also has more than 20 other ports of different functions such as chemical liquid transportation (gasoline, oil, gas), shipbuilding yards, wharves for small river shipping of 1-2 tons ("mouse ships") like Vat Cach and So Dau river ports.

Railway

Hai Phong Railway Station built in 1902 is the eastern terminus of the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, also known as the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway. Built at by the French during their occupation, the railway once connected Haiphong to the city of Kunming in Yunnan, China, although service along the Chinese portion of the line is currently suspended. Rail travel from Haiphong with connections to the rest of the Vietnamese railway network is via Hanoi.

There are daily trains start from 6AM until 6PM from Hai Phong city to the capital Hanoi and return. The trains take approximately 3 hours to arrive to Hanoi as well as the same period back to the landport city.

Roads

Haiphong is located at the junction of two National Highways: Route 5, leading west to Hanoi, and Route 10, leading south to Nam Định and onward to connect with National Route 1A at Ninh Bình. Highway 356 passes west–east from the Route 5/10 junction through Haiphong's city center all the way to the coast. A connecting road from route 5 to route 18 links Haiphong with Quảng Ninh Province. In 2015, the new highway connecting Haiphong with Hanoi was completed; this is the most modern highway in Vietnam and reduces the trip by one hour as compared to the previous route.

Within the city there are several long-distance bus depots: Niem Nghia, Cau Rao.

A new highway route was completed last year 2016 to make the transfer faster and easier. From Hanoi to Haiphong and back, it takes less than 2 hours to reach not so long as 3 hours as before. Also shorten the distance from Haiphong to Thai Binh, Hai Duong, Hung Yen.

Tourists can easily catch a coach from Niem Nghia bus station to Hanoi or Cat Ba island, either Quang Ninh, or South of Vietnam.