(Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The AirportsCorporation of Vietnam (ACV) expects profit this year will reach just 1.7trillion VND (73.4 million USD), a decrease of more than 6 trillion VND comparedto the year’s forecast, due to the effect of the acute respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus (COVID-19).
The epidemic and its impacts could result in a total reduction of 35 million passengers in the entire port network this year, said ACV.
Last year, the corporation achieved a net revenue of 18.3 trillion VND and anafter-tax profit of 8.3 trillion VND, record results thanks to the growth ofboth passenger volume and air cargo.
During a recent meeting with the Prime Minister’s Working Group, ACV proposedGovernment and the Prime Minister consider the creation of favourablemechanisms and policies to accelerate the progress of investment projects,especially the upgrading projects of flight deck systems at Tan Son Nhat and NoiBai international airports to meet the operational needs when the marketrecovers.
The legal documents guiding the implementation of the Vietnam Civil AviationLaw currently do not prescribe nor clearly define the role of port enterprisesin terms of the rights to invest, develop, renovate and expand the airportsthat are assigned to those firms for management and exploitation.
This affected ACV’s initiative of investing, upgrading and improving ACV'sairport infrastructure. Meanwhile, ACV had already accumulated available fundsto immediately implement projects, the company said.
As of December 31, 2019, the company's short-term deposits amounted to nearly 31.2trillion VND, accounting for more than half of its total assets.
To solve this problem, in the draft revision of Decree 102/2015 on managementand operation of airports, the Ministry of Transport has added provisionsspecifying the authority of port enterprises in investing, renovating andupgrading ports./.
VNA
