(Engineering daily) Nguyen Anh Duong = The Ministry of Transport has chosen the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to invest in expansion of HCM City's Tan Son Nhat Airport.
Le Dinh Tho, Deputy Minister of Transport, said at a meeting in Hanoi that the ministry chose ACV because of its experience in the field in Vietnam.
Lai Xuan Thanh, ACV chairman, said that from now to 2025 ACV would be able to mobilise $3.75 billion to build more runways and terminals at Tan Son Nhat Airport.
The French consulting company ADPI proposed expanding Tan Son Nhat airport. A 200,000㎡ T3 passenger terminal capable of serving 20 million travellers will be built to the south of the airport.
The airport aims to have a capacity of 57 aircraft taking off and landing per hour and 50 million passengers per year.
The expansion will increase the airport area by 246 hectares to more than 791ha.
Terminals T1 and T2 will be expanded to serve 30 million passengers a year, while T3 to the south will serve 20 million.
An additional eight taxiways will also be built to speed up aircraft take-offs and landings.
The Long Thanh airport will not be completed until 2025 or possibly even later, which experts have attributed to a lack of capital and slow compensation progress.
Tan Son Nhat will remain the main airport hub even after Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai Province opens.
