Deputy PM urges faster progress of Long Thanh International Airport project
To keep Long Thanh International Airport project on schedule, the Government has established an inter-disciplinary working team of officials from the Ministries of Transport, and Construction and a deputy minister of transport will visit the construction site weekly to push the pace of the project.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh (centre) chairs the meeting on June 14. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - To keep Long Thanh International Airport project on schedule,the Government has established an inter-disciplinary working team of officialsfrom the Ministries of Transport, and Construction and a deputy ministerof transport will visit the construction site weekly to push the pace of theproject.
Thesenew measures were announced at a meeting held on June 14 chaired by DeputyPrime Minister Le Van Thanh, who is also head of the project's steeringcommittee.
Thanhsaid the steering committee will convene every month to review the progress ofthe project.
Ministerof Transport Nguyen Van The said the project was on the right track and mustnot be delayed any further so that it can go into trial operation in early2025.
Thanhalso ordered the People’s Committee of Dong Nai province to complete land clearanceand asked the authorities to build road and railway systems connecting theairport with localities.
Atthe next meeting, the Ministry of Transport must report the results of a surveyon the road from the airport to Ho Chi Minh City.
Healso asked members of the steering committee to visit the site regularly andpush the progress of the project, to make sure it is implemented in accordancewith the report.
Despitehaving some positive progress since the site check on April 27 this year,ground levelling work hasn’t been up to expectations, the Deputy PM said.
Ministerof Transport Nguyen Van The said ground levelling is an important task of the project andwill affect other tasks if it is not completed, noting that it must be finishedby July next year.
Headded that a deputy minister has been assigned to the construction site toexamine and accelerate the progress.
Coveringmore than 5,580 hectares, the Long Thanh International Airport willspread across six communes in Long Thanh district. Its construction has beendivided into three phases.
Inthe first phase, a runway and one passenger terminal, along with othersupporting facilities, will be built to serve 25 million passengers and 1.2million tonnes of cargo each year. This phase is scheduled to be completed in2025.
Theproject started in 2021. Once fully completed in 2050, the airport will be ableto handle 100 million passengers and 5 million tonnes of cargo annually.
Located40km to the east of HCM City, the airport is expected to relieve overloading atthe southern metropolis’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport, which iscurrently the largest in Vietnam./.
Nearly 360 hectares of land has been handed over to make way for the construction of the first phase of Long Thanh International Airport since the beginning of this month, according to the People’s Committee of the southern province of Dong Nai.
Construction work at the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai is accelerated to ensure the project's scheduled pace.
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Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh (centre) chairs the meeting on June 14. (Photo: VNA) 
