The Northern Airport Corporation is preparing to start construction of the second passenger terminal at Noi Bai Airport, hopefully in the third quarter of this year.
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) said the owner of the second terminal, also known as T2, and relevant authorities were reviewing construction and consulting packages and selecting qualified contractors as well as speeding up site clearance.

Approved in August 2009 by the Ministry of Transport, the 138,000-square-meter T2 facility will have four stories and replace the existing terminal of Noi Bai Airport to serve international flights when it is in place by 2014 as planned.

The whole T2 project requires total capital of over VND14.3 trillion, the Government said on its website (chinhphu.vn). The investment will come from Japan’s official development assistance loans and other sources.

The new facility is expected to ease overload at Noi Bai Airport’s existing terminal, about 30 kilometers from the heart of Hanoi. The current terminal is designed to receive some six million passengers a year but last year shouldered up to 9.5 million passengers.  

The new terminal is planned for 10 million passengers a year in the initial period and 15 million passengers thereafter. Construction of this national-level project covering over 115 hectares would take 34 months to complete, CAAV said after Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai met members of the State Steering Committee for major transport projects in Hanoi on Monday.Hai urged an improvement of policies and management mechanisms to make the most of different investment forms, including the build-operate-transfer and build-transfer, to put those important projects on fast track.   

CAAV said the T2 terminal and Phu Quoc International Airport were in the list of projects of national importance. The Southern Airports Corporation plans to complete the 3,000-meter-long, 45-meter-wide runway, and parking area for aircraft at the airport under construction on Phu Quoc Island off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.

In November 2008, the corporation began work on the airport project on more than 905 hectares about 10 kilometers from Duong Dong Municipality. Besides the runway for such modern aircraft as Boeing B747-400 and Airbus A380, the first phase of the project is comprised of a terminal with an annual handling capacity of 2.65 million passengers.

The first phase until 2020 costs more than VND8 trillion (some US$387 million) out of the estimated VND16.2 trillion (over US$778 million) needed for the entire three-phase the project.  

As designed in the second phase until 2030, the airport will be able to annually handle seven million passengers and some 27,600 tons of cargo from 14,300 tons in the first phase.

Source: SGT