Tan Son Nhat Airport (source: vtc.vn)Thechosen plan costs less than the two other plans and has a shorter completionwhile still increasing the airport’s capacity.
TanSon Nhat airport serves 28 million passengers per year even though its capacitywas planned to be only 25 million per year until 2020.
Inprevious meetings, Deputy PM Dung asked leaders to develop a renovation planfor the airport which will increase its capacity to 40-50 million passengersper year.
Thechosen plan includes the construction of parallel taxiways and connectingtaxiways between the current runways and aircraft parking areas; rapid-exittaxiways and parallel taxiways between two runways, as well as the renovationof the current north runway.
Adual-use terminal (T3) with capacity of 10 million passengers per year, and apassenger terminal (T4) also with capacity of 10 million passengers per yearwill also be constructed.
Theplan will take only three years to complete and cost 19.7 trillion VND (873million USD) because it makes use of available military land, while stillincreasing the airport’s total capacity to 43-45 million passengers per year.
DeputyPM Dung assigned the Ministry of Transport to direct a consultant firm tofinalise the plan and report to the Prime Minister before February 25.
Hereminded the transport ministry to revise the plan carefully and identify theprojects it entails and sources of capital.
“State-ownedenterprises will be responsible for contributing investment capital to theconstructions that use the State’s budget such as taxiways and aircraft parkingareas, while the passenger terminal and service areas should mobilise socialcapital,” he said.
“Trafficroutes connected with the airport should be constructed with the funds of HCMCity’s People’s Committee,” he added.
Thetransport ministry will work with the Department of Defence to identify themilitary land that will be used for the plan and determine a land transferplan.
Oneof the two plans not chosen aimed to increase the airport’s capacity to 60million passengers per year, taking 10-15 years to complete and requiring theclearance of 140,000 households, costing 201 trillion VND (9.3 billion USD).
Theother plan was similar to the chosen plan, with the addition of theconstruction of a parallel taxiway and an aircraft parking area in the north ofthe airport.
Thisoption would have cost 61 trillion VND (2.7 billion USD) and take 8-10 years tocomplete, increasing the airport’s total capacity to 43-45 million passengersper year.
Atthe meeting, the HCM City’s Department of Transport also reported on trafficconstruction development projects to ease congestion around the airport.
Thecity is studying four other projects, in addition to the eight projects thathave been approved and are in progress, the department’s representatives said.-VNA
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