PRIME MINISTER PHAM MINH CHINH'S NEW YEAR INSPECTION AT THE LONG THANH AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION SITE

On February 13, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha and leaders from various central and Dong Nai provincial ministries and departments, inspected the Long Thanh airport project.

During the inspection, PM Chinh inspected two pivotal components of the project—the passenger terminal and the runway. Initiated on August 31, 2023, these are the two largest, most important, and most complex items in phase 1.

Reporting to PM Chinh, leaders of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV - Investor) stated that the runway spans 4,000 meters in length and 75 meters in width, with the taxiway system (including parallel taxiways, rapid exit taxiways, and connecting taxiways) measuring 44 meters wide.

Immediately following the groundbreaking ceremony, the contractor joint venture swiftly mobilized thousands of personnel, along with a plethora of equipment and machinery, to expedite the project's construction. Even during the Lunar New Year, the contractors maintained a workforce of nearly 300 personnel on-site.

In the interview with Thanh Nien newspaper, Mr. Nguyen Hoai Giang, General Director of Vietnam Construction Investment Development Joint Stock Company (VINADIC), a key member of the contractor joint venture, stated that they have allocated all resources, including experts, technical staff, workers, machinery, and equipment, to meet and exceed the project schedule required by the investor.

In the project, 24 tower cranes are working non-stop to handle all the materials & equipment transfers throughout the entire project site.

ACV and the Contractor Joint Venture have strived to finish all construction by December 2025, completed facade installation by March 2026, and installed trial operation equipment starting in early 2026.

The airport spans 5,000 hectares in Long Thanh district, Dong Nai province, and its phase 1 construction began in January 2021. It is expected that Long Thanh Airport would be operational by 2026, able to cater to 25 million passengers and handle 1.2 million tons of cargo each year.

(Source: thanhnien.vn)