Vietnam to seek gov’t feedback on $880mn Tan Son Nhat expansion plan
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 01/21/2017 12:00 GMT + 7
A panel formed to seek solutions for the overloaded Tan Son Nhat International Airport has made up its mind on a final proposal to submit to the government, after five meetings with three options up for debate.
The team, led by the Ministry of Transport under supervision of Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung, announced after the fifth round of meeting on Friday that the last of the three options has been chosen.
Tan Son Nhat is currently the country’s busiest airport, and the transport ministry and the aviation watchdog had repeatedly been urged to find feasible expansion plan for the Ho Chi Minh City airdrome.
The selected proposition suggests building more taxiways, which will link the two runways and connect them with the apron areas, and improving the existing runway in the northern side of the airport.
The plan also includes constructions of a mixed-use terminal T3, capable of serving 10 million passengers a year, and a passenger terminal T4 with the same capacity.
These facilities will be built on a military-owned land plot, which the defense ministry has promised to transfer the using right to its transport counterpart.
This proposed plan costs about VND19.7 trillion (US$879.46 million) and takes no more than three years for completion.
Once finished, the plan will expand Tan Son Nhat capacity to 43 million or 45 million passengers a year, compared to the current 25 million.
Deputy PM Dung has decided on this proposal, requesting relevant agencies to prepare a complete proposition to officially submit to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for feedback by February 25
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