Long Thanh International Airport Vietnam
The Vietnamese Government has builting the great international airport that was called " Long Thanh international Airport Vietnam" located in Dong Nai Province ( about 45 km from Ho Chi Minh city and Tan Son Nhat internation airport ) this project have started since 2010 and will be complated in 2020. This international airport will be served more than 100 milllion passangers to Vietnam every years.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport is the only international airport in the planned Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area (covering 30,404 square kilometres (11,739 sq mi), with an estimated population of 20-22 million inhabitants by 2020, of which there will be 16 - 17 million urban inhabitants, accounting for 77 - 80% of total population).[2] Tan Son Nhat airport was built during the Vietnam War to support war transportation, hence its location inside the crowded Saigon where growth is limited. Due to location and safety issues, it is difficult to expand to meet the increasing annual growth of passengers. The maximum capacity of Tan Son Nhat is 25 million passengers per annum but in 2010 it handled 15.5 million and with annual growth rate of passengers over 15%, it will be overloaded by 2015.
The flow of international tourists to the South of Vietnam is increasing dramatically, by 15 to 20 percent annually. Promoting the domestic market (current population of 87 million, forecast of 100 million by 2020) by building a new airport that can adapt to future needs is necessary.
Tan Son Nhat airport will serve the international and domestic filghts until the completion of the new Long Thanh International Airport. Article on Tan Son Nhat Airport says Long Thanh Airport is 50km from Ho Chi Minh City, this article says Long Thanh Airport is 40km from Ho Chi Minh City.
The Master Plan for Long Thanh International Airport Vietnam was approved by the Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải in 2006 and several adjustments have been made through time. The project faced mixed public reaction for its expensive cost and far distance from the center of Ho Chi Minh City.Based on the demand of transportation, the investment will be divided in phases. The Southern Airports Corporation (a company under the Ministry of Transportation of Viet Nam) is in charge of development of this project.
The building of Long Thanh International Airport, which is set to become Viet Nam's largest airport, will likely be inaugurated five years behind schedule if it follows procedures as required, the National Assembly Economic Committee said.
To complete all procedures, the project could only start by 2030, it said.
At a working visit between the committee and the local authority, the Dong Nai Province's People's Committee said that it would take about three years to implement the land acquisition, land clearance and resettlement. As stipulated by the current law, these tasks could only be carried out after Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved the investment on the project.
Meanwhile, investor Corporation of Viet Nam said that by July, 2017, it would submit to the Ministry of Transport a report on the project and the National Assembly would approve the project at the first session of 2018.
Thus, in 2018 at the earliest, the Prime Minister will allocate investment capital for the construction of two resettlement areas of Loc An and Binh Son. After that, the site clearance would be implemented by 2020 and land acquisition by 2023.
This meant the project would be carried out five years behind schedule, which might pose risks of increasing initial investment capital and delays at reducing the overloading of Tan Son Nhat International Airport, it said.
Nguyen Van Giau, chairman of the NA Economic Committee said that the project must begin in 2018, so it could complete its first phase by 2025 according to the National Assembly's resolution.
The first phase of the project includes the construction of a terminal and a runway with capacity of 25 million passengers annually.
Giau said the committee has asked the Prime Minister to propose the National Assembly a special mechanism, which would allocate investment capital for resettlement and site clearance before getting the project's approval.
To make it work, the National Assembly would create the legal basis by adding the proposal to the resolution of the socio-economic development plan for the period of 2016 to 2020.
According to the resolution, approved by the National Assembly in June, Long Thanh International Airport would be the most important airport of the country and an international hub in the region.
After completing its construction by 2050, Long Thanh International Airport would have a capacity of 100 million of passengers and five million tonnes of cargo per year. Total investment capital for the project is estimated to be VND336.6 trillion (US$16 billion).
