Deputy PM urges acceleration of Long Thanh airport construction

PSNews - Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh on December 28 had a field visit to inspect the construction progress of the Long Thanh International Airport project. He instructed the Aviation Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to exert all-out effort to put the country's largest airport into operation from the beginning of 2025.

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Deputy PM Le Van Thanh visiting the construction site of Long Thanh International Airport.

During the field visit, a representative of ACV briefed Deputy PM on the construction progress of the Long Thanh International Airport project. 

Accordingly, on the area of ​​handed over land, the unit has cleared bombs and mines and built airport fences. Ground leveling with a volume of more than 80 million m3 of sandy soil will be deployed before the Lunar New Year. The technical design of the passenger terminal section is about to complete to start of construction as planned.

ACV affirmed to start the construction of airport runway by October 2022. The unit will soon complete the site clearance to start the construction of roads connecting traffic with the airport by June 2022. The construction of the resettlement area Loc An - Binh Son for people will be completed in March 2022.

For his part, Deputy PM Thanh asked ACV to simultaneously execute consulting, design and site clearance packages. He also instructed the Ministryof Transport to  coordinate with the Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises, ACV and related units to soon establish a strong project management board to control the construction of Long Thanh airport at its site.

The Long Thanh International Airport is a national key project. Once operational, the airport in southern Dong Nai province will help ease the traffic burden on nearby Ho Chi Minh City and serve as an impulse for economic development in the southern region and the country as a whole. 

It is set to have four runways, four passenger terminals, and other auxiliary facilities to serve 100 million passengers and 5 million tonnes of cargo a year by 2040. In the first phase, it will have one runway, one passenger terminal, and accompanying facilities, able to handle 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo per year.

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