The rainy season comes early, workers are unable to mobilize
According to Vietnam Airports Corporation (ACV), from the beginning of May 2025 until now, the weather at the construction site has changed unfavorably when the rainy season arrived about a month earlier than expected. Continuous heavy rain with heavy rain has seriously affected the entire construction work, disrupting many items, especially underground works such as tuyel, drainage system, roadbed...
A representative of the Long Thanh Airport Project Management Board shared that prolonged rain not only causes flooding, slippery weather, and difficulties in operating machinery and equipment, but also poses many potential risks to labor safety, forcing construction units to continuously adjust construction plans and measures to adapt to harsh weather conditions and ensure labor safety.
In addition, the work of mobilizing labor for the project has so far encountered many difficulties and shortages due to the simultaneous implementation of key projects across the country in general and in Dong Nai province in particular such as the Bien Hoa - Vung Tau Expressway project, Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 project...
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.
Many component project packages 3 are ahead of schedule
The Long Thanh airport component project 3 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. In particular, for package 5.10, the construction of the passenger terminal (known as the heart, the gantt road of 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 baggage handling systems, checked baggage screening systems, aircraft handling systems, escalator systems, pedestrian stairs, elevator systems, etc., are also being urgently implemented...
For package 4.6, the construction of runways, taxiways, and aircraft parking lots has been completed and the runways have been technically exploited before April 30, 2025 (3 months ahead of the contract). The runway's traffic light system has been officially lit, successfully piloted 3 months ahead of schedule. For the parallel taxiway system, it has been basically completed...
For the second runway, to meet the progress requirements of the Prime Minister, ACV has urgently deployed and completed the selection of contractors in special cases for packages during the construction phase to deploy the second runway and held a groundbreaking ceremony on May 30, 2025. The consortium of contractors has mobilized machinery, equipment, personnel, materials, and laboratories to serve the construction; The project is expected to be completed in sync with the passenger terminal project and put into operation in June 2026.
For package 6.12, construction of the Traffic System connecting routes 1 and 2. Up to now, route 1 and the National Highway 51 intersection have been technically opened to traffic before April 30, 2025, completed acceptance and put into use in September 2025 (3 months shorter than the contract) and are continuing to complete route 2.
For package 7.8, construction and installation of equipment for cargo terminal No. 1 and remaining auxiliary works, ACV is organizing a bidding process, striving to start construction in June 2025, completing the construction before December 31, 2025.
