Deputy Prime Minister highly appreciated about the implementation of Long Thanh Airport Project

Mr. Le Van Thanh, Deputy Prime Minister chaired the meeting – Photo by VGP​

At the meeting, Mr. Lai Xuan Thanh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), the investor of Long Thanh Airport, said that up to now, the contractor has mobilized equipment, machinery, and human resources in order to meet the requirements with more than 700 machines for construction and was organized to construct into 32 excavation and embankment lines and ready for 3 consecutive shifts. After over a month of construction, the ground leveling has completed all test pile drilling positions, updated the progress before the total volume achieved by the end of March 2022 is 2.5 million blocks of excavated soil. Overfilling 500 thousand blocks compared with the plan.

The mobilization of the maximum capacity for construction of 3 shifts can reach 12,000 blocks per line per day with 32 lines. The total construction capacity of 3 machine shifts per day and night can reach nearly 400,000 blocks per day. However, due to the fact that the ground has not been fully handed over to "stickiness" and lack of space in the reserve embankments, it has not yet brought into full capacity, with some production lines operating at only 80% of capacity.

Mr. Cao Tien Dung, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reported the progress of site clearance for the Long Thanh Airport Project at the meeting.​

According to Mr. Thanh, ACV has prepared enough counterpart VND36.000 billion ready for the project. In 2022, it is expected that ACV will disburse about VND8.500 billion for Component 3 Project, mainly for construction packages for ground leveling (from the end of January 2022), passenger terminals (pile foundation from March, 2022, the fuselage from October 2022), construction of the airfield (from December 2022), as well as the technical design for these items and disbursement of site clearance for the connecting traffic system.

ACV proposes to expand the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh Expressway and An Phu Intersection early in order to ensure that international passengers coming and going to Long Thanh Airport smoothly.

At the meeting, Mr. Le Anh Tuan, Deputy Minister of Transport also said that Dong Nai Province has tried very hard to hand over the site to the investor, but the ground is still in a state of "stickiness". According to the recommendation of the leaders of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Dong Nai focuses on site clearance for phase 1 before June 30, 2022, handing over clean ground, especially solving completely the households in the area "stickiness" before April 30, 2022. 

Mr. Lai Xuan Thanh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) reported the construction progress of Long Thanh Airport at the meeting.

Having reported on the site clearance, Mr. Cao Tien Dung, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that there are still about 146 households in the project area that cannot be relocated in time, so the province has not yet handed over the completely clean ground to the investor. The province will apply a policy to support temporary residents while waiting for the construction of resettlement houses to mobilize households to hand over the grounds early. The province has also made efforts to propagate and mobilize people to relocate early.

In the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Le Van Thanh, Deputy Prime Minister highly appreciated Dong Nai for actively implementing site clearance as well as the positive change of ACV in construction implementation. The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized: "The progress must be fixed, the quality of the works must be put at first and there must be regular and continuous solutions to combat waste, loss and negativity things in the project".

Mr. Le Van Thanh, Deputy Prime Minister also asked Dong Nai Province to do the site clearance drastically, ensuring the goal of handing over all 1,810 hectares of the airport construction area in phase 1 and the area for redundant land (722 hectares) before April 30, 2022; handing over 5,000 hectares of the whole project in June 2022. This is a very important task, determining the success of the project. Therefore, the political system must take part in and do propagating well, explaining and mobilizing people to understand the meaning and importance of the project in order to agree to implement the project.

The construction of Long Thanh Airport Project

For terminals, runways, two "soul" works of the Airport, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Construction, and ACV actively cooperated closely to ensure the completion of planned equipment approval in July 2022 in order to be able to start the station in October 2022, start the runway in December 2022.

The Deputy Prime Minister also requested the Ministry of Communications and Transport coordinate with localities in reviewing the planning, ensuring a long-term vision, meeting internal traffic demands and the ability to connect to Long Thanh Airport with a scale of VND100 million per customers per year with Ho Chi Minh City and other localities, avoiding the situation of being small and fragmented.

Khac Gioi