On the afternoon of August 2, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Central working delegation inspected the construction site of the Long Thanh airport project in Long Thanh commune.
At the construction site, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Central working delegation inspected the progress of the Long Thanh airport passenger terminal construction package, inspected the progress of the second runway construction package of Long Thanh airport, part of component project 3.
Here, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited, encouraged and presented gifts to officers, engineers and workers working at the Long Thanh airport project site.
According to Vietnam Airports Corporation (ACV), the component project 3 of Long Thanh airport has a total investment of more than VND 99,000 billion, including 14 packages.
Up to now, 3 packages have been completed, 9 packages are under construction, the remaining 2 packages are about to select contractors.
For package 5.10, construction of the passenger terminal (considered the gantt road for the progress of the entire Long Thanh airport project), the consortium of contractors mobilized to arrange 4,428 personnel and more than 1,000 machines and equipment to carry out the construction.
Currently, the rough construction work has reached nearly 79.5% and is being completed such as water painting, ceilings, installation of aluminum frame glass walls in the central area and the station wings...
Regarding station equipment such as: luggage handling system, checked baggage screening system, train parking system, escalator system, pedestrian elevator, elevator system... are also being urgently implemented...
Image of Long Thanh airport recorded by the reporter:
According to ACV, despite facing many challenges, at the current construction site, the units are still maintaining the construction progress with hundreds of deployment teams, mobilizing nearly 13,000 experts, engineers, workers, laborers and nearly 3,000 construction equipment to speed up the progress with the goal of basically completing the project by the end of 2025, putting it into operation and commercial exploitation in the first half of 2026 in accordance with the Prime Minister's request.
