Contract signed to start feasibility study for Long Thanh airport. (Photo: ACV)Hanoi (VNA) – The Airports Corporation ofVietnam (ACV) on June 2 signed a contract with a joint venture comprising offirms from Japan, France and Vietnam (JFV) for consultancy services and thefeasibility study for the first phase of Long Thanh International Airportproject.
The feasibility study will be carried out from June2018 to June 2019 and it will be assessed before submitted to the NationalAssembly for review in October 2019, said ACV Chairman of the Board Lai XuanThanh at the signing ceremony.
The ACV is preparing all required resources and takingnecessary steps for the construction of the airport to be started at the end of2020, he noted. “The airport will be completed and put into use in 2025 at thelatest.”
In March, the Ministry of Transport selected the lotusdesign developed by Heerim Architects and Planners from the Republic of Koreafor the project.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Transport LeDinh Tho asked Heerim Architects and Planners to closely work the JFV totranslate the design into reality in accordance with the agreement.
He also requested the ACV to exert its best efforts toensure the quality of the feasibility study and enable it to be submitted toPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the National Assembly in late 2019.
The JFV joint venture gathers leading consulting anddesign firms with years of experiences in the airport construction industry,including Japan Airport Consultants (JAC) which provided design andconstruction supervision services for the expansion of Tan Son Nhat and Noi BaiInternational Airports, ADP Ingénierie from France, Nippon Koei and OrientalConsultants Global from Japan, and Airport Design and Construction Consultancy(ADCC) and Transport Engineering Design (TEDI) from Vietnam.
The Long Thanh International Airport has a total areaof more than 5,580 hectares, spreading cross six communes in Long ThanhDistrict, the southern province of Dong Nai. It is set to have a totalinvestment of 336.63 trillion VND (14.8 billion USD), with construction dividedinto three phases.
In the first phase, a runway and one passenger terminal along with othersupporting works will be built to serve 25 million passengers and 1.2 milliontonnes of cargo each year. This phase is hoped to be finished by 2025.
In the second phase, one more runway and another passenger terminal will beconstructed to serve 50 million passengers and 1.5 million tonnes of cargo ayear.
After the third phase expansion, the airport will be able serve 100 millionpassengers and 5 million tonnes of cargo each year.-VNA
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