$10b to build Long Thanh airport

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai ordered Ministry of Traffic and Transportation to soon set up the council of appraising the Long Thanh airport project with total cost of $10 billion in Dong Nai province, and prepare the comparative draft to select a consultant for building feasibility study.

According to the plan sent to Dong Nai provincial People’s Committee by Southern Airport Corp (SAC), Long Thanh international airport is levelled at 4F built on 5,000 hectares with the transportation capacity of 100 million passengers and five million tonnes of goods a year. As designed by the Australian consultant Hensen Partnership, the airport can receive big planes A380-800.

Long Thanh airport comprises eight functional areas: offices, parking area, museum, transit centre and preservation warehouses, processing area, hotels, non-tariff area and golf course.

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Posted by VBN on Jun 11 2010. Filed under Aviation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry