VN increases airport capacity
HA NOI (VNS) - Viet Nam, like other Southeast Asian countries, is expanding its airports and constructing new international hubs to accommodate an increasing number of travellers. At the third Annual South East Asia Airport Expansion Summit in the capital city yesterday, Vu Pham Nguyen An, Deputy Director of the Airport Operation Department under the Airports Corporation of Viet Nam (ACV) offered to participants key expansion projects in He said the projects were being carried out in six airports across the country, including two major airports here and in Noppen, an international company facilitating business across Asia and Europe, organised the two-day summit, where government officials joined airport owners and operators, airlines, financiers and consultants in discussing global trends and coming up with strategies and partnerships to efficiently expand airports in the region. According to An, the construction of Terminal 2 (T2) of the Noi Bai International Airport here is scheduled to be completed by year-end and is expected to serve 10 million to 15 million passengers per year by 2020. After 2020, the Government will determine whether to proceed with T3 and T4 to increase the airport's capacity to 50 million passengers per year. Other projects include the expansion and upgrade of the domestic terminal and the expansion of the international terminal (T2) of For its T2 expansion project, ACV will expand the left and right wing of the international terminal, adding 40 check-in counters and two waiting halls to increase capacity to 13 million passengers per year. An said the company was also implementing repair and expansion projects in international airports such as Cam Ranh in He also cited the plan to construct "The airport will handle 100 million passengers and five million tonnes of freight per year. The airport project will be submitted to the National Assembly for approval this October," An said. Manomay Rai, General Manager of Rai said |
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