(ĐN)- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 29 led a delegation from the Government to visit and present gifts to residents at Loc An-Binh Son resettlement area as well as check the progress of Long Thanh international airport project.
(ĐN)- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 29 led a delegation from the Government to visit and present gifts to residents at Loc An-Binh Son resettlement area as well as check the progress of Long Thanh international airport project.
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| PM Pham Minh Chinh inspects progress of the project |
PM Chinh and the delegation visited the resettlement area for those who are affected by the project in Loc An and Binh Son communes in Long Thanh District. The resettlement area has an area of 280ha, giving accommodation for 7,000 households. Currently, about 1,500 households are living in the area.
The PM asked Dong Nai province to complete the handover of cleared ground for the first-stage construction of Long Thanh international airport by the end of this first quarter.
During a working session with ministries, agencies, localities and stakeholders of the project after making a fact-finding trip earlier the same day to the construction site, he requested the investor to make a specific plan for each item at a specific time while supervising the implementation of the tasks. Local authorities must focus on handling the site clearance work, accelerating progress while ensuring the quality of the project, and avoiding dividing bidding packages.
By the end of the first quarter of 2023, the entire site for the first phase must be handed over for the project's construction. By the end of the second quarter of this year, he said the site for construction of the logistics road and the access road to the airport must be ready.
Also at the working session, PM Chinh has requested the establishment of a working group led by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to oversee and speed up the project.
Covering a total area of more than 5,580ha, the Long Thanh International Airport will spread across six communes in the Long Thanh District in Dong Nai Province. The airport’s total investment is VNĐ336.63 trillion with construction divided into three phases.
In the first phase, a runway and one passenger terminal along with other supporting facilities will be built at a cost of 109.112 trillion VND to serve 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo each year.
The project started in 2021. Once fully completed by 2050, the airport will be able to handle 100 million passengers and 5 million tonnes of cargo annually.
The airport is expected to relieve overloading at Tan Son Nhat international airport in HCM city, now the country’s largest airport.
Reported by P.T
