Construction on projects linked to Tan Son Nhat airport to start this year

Ho Chi Minh City plans to start work on several important transport projects in areas surrounding its Tan Son Nhat International Airport in 2022 so as to ensure synchronisation with the airport’s Terminal T3 project.
Construction on projects linked to Tan Son Nhat airport to start this year ảnh 1Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City plans to start work on severalimportant transport projects in areas surrounding its Tan Son NhatInternational Airport in 2022 so as to ensure synchronisation with the airport’s TerminalT3 project.

Specifically, this year, the city’s management board forinvestment and construction of transport projects will build a road connectingTran Quoc Hoan and Cong Hoa streets, upgrade Cong Hoa street from alley 2 ofTran Quoc Hoan street to Thang Long street, expand Hoang Hoa Tham street fromthe military base near the airport to Cong Hoa street, and expand Tan Ky TanQuy street.

Luong Minh Phuc, Director of the management board, said thatin 2022, it will pay attention to investing in projects at the city’s gatewaysuch as National Highways 22 and 50, An Phu intersection and Tan Son Nhatairport and Cat Lai port.

Construction is also sped up on the road connecting TranQuoc Hoan street with Terminal T3, he added.

Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City is currently one of the two largest and most important airports of Vietnam. However, before the COVID-19 broke out over the globe, it was usually overloaded./.

VNA

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