Long Thanh airport’s first phase slated to become operational in Q4 2025
Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has requested extra efforts to put the first phase of the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai into operation in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Perspective of Long Thanh International Airport project's first phase (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has requested extraefforts to put the first phase of the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai into operation in the fourth quarter of 2025.
He urged investors of the four component projects tocomplete the construction and installation of equipment before March 31, 2025,and conduct the trial run in the second quarter of 2025.
Relevant agencies and units should closely coordinate with Dong Nai to complete ground clearance in 2021 as directed bythe Government and the National Assembly, The stressed.
He also asked the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), theVietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM), the Civil Aviation Authorityof Vietnam, the Transport Engineering Construction and Quality Management Bureauto urgently make reports on the implementation of the project. The report shouldstates difficulties, problems, along with proposals and recommendations to address them.
ACV has to date completed bomb and mine clearance for morethan one quarter of the total area of the first phase and constructed more than1,750m of boundary walls. It is expected to complete the construction of all 8,668mof walls surrounding the area in September and bomb and mine clearance in December.
A consulting consortium led by the Republic of Korea’sHeerim Architects & Planners was chosen to design the passenger terminal of the firstphase. Technical design work began in May and is expected to be completed and approvedsoon so that construction on the terminal can start in February 2022.
According to the ACV, the Long Thanh International Airportwill be built in three phases over three decades. In the first phase, onerunway with a length of 4,000m, taxiways, an apron, and a passenger terminalwith other auxiliary works sprawling 373,000sq.m will be built to serve 25million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo each year.
The airport, which was expected to cost 336.63 trillion VND(14.5 billion USD), is designed to have four runways, four passenger terminals,and other auxiliary facilities to ensure a capacity of 100 million passengersand 5 million tonnes of cargo a year by 2040.
Located 40km to the east of Ho Chi Minh City, Long Thanhairport is expected to relieve overloading at Tan Son Nhat internationalairport in the southern metropolis, now the country’s largest airport./.
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Perspective of Long Thanh International Airport project's first phase (Photo: VNA) 
