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Work on Long Thanh airport’s terminal to start in October

Construction on the Long Thanh International Airport’s passenger terminal in the southern province of Dong Nai will begin in October, the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has told an inspection delegation of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee.
Work on Long Thanh airport’s terminal to start in October ảnh 1A perspective of Long Thanh International Airport (Photo: ACV) 
Hanoi (VNA) – Construction on the Long Thanh International Airport’s passenger terminal in the southern province of Dong Nai will begin in October, theAirports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has told an inspection delegation of theNational Assembly’s Economic Committee.

The ACV said that the piling work for the passenger terminal, the most important work of the Long Thanh Airport project, is completedone month ahead of the schedule, and more than 14 million cu.m of soil has beendug, filled and leveled.

Covering more than 5,580 hectares, Long Thanh InternationalAirport will spread across six communes in Long Thanh district.Its construction has been divided into three phases.

In the first phase, a runway and one passenger terminal,along with other supporting facilities, will be built to serve 25 millionpassengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo each year. This phase is scheduledto be completed in 2025.
Work on Long Thanh airport’s terminal to start in October ảnh 2The Loc An-Binh Son resettlement area (Photo: VNA)
The project started in 2021. Once fully completed in 2050,the airport will be able to handle 100 million passengers and five milliontonnes of cargo annually.

Located 40km to the east of Ho Chi Minh City, the airport isexpected to relieve overloading at the southern metropolis’s Tan Son NhatInternational Airport, which is currently the largest in Vietnam./.
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