Government urges to complete Noi Bai, TSN runway upgrades by year-end

PSNews - Recently, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged the Transport Ministry to instruct contractors to complete the upgrade of runways at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat international airport, aiming to serve passengers and commercial operation before the year-end - the peak travel season.
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Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat are the two biggest airports in Vietnam which play an important role in boosting economic development and ensuring defence security.

As reported, the two projects to repair Tan Son Nhat and Noi Bai runways kicked start on June 29 with an estimated cost of VND4.05 trillion (US$174 million), equally distributed to the two. The upgrade will be carried out in two phases, with the first lasting six months and the second 14 months.

So far, the workload of the runway 1B upgrade at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi has been 75% completed and is expected to finish by December 31. The repair of taxiways and other items are being sped up.

At Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City, the project upgrading the 25R/07L runway and other taxiways will be completed before December 10 and become operational before December 31.

As the projects are facing capital shortage, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to arrange funding by adjusting the medium- and long-term capital plan or transferring capital from projects with slow disbursement.

Regarding the handover of cleared site for the construction of terminal T3 at Tan Son Nhat, Deputy PM Binh asked the Ministry of Defence to accelerate the review of the land fund in Tan Son Nhat area, and soon plan to hand over the site to Airports Corporation of Vietnam for the implementation of the T3 passenger terminal construction project.

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