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Binh thuanMajor Lieutenant General Tran Don, Deputy Minister of National Defense, said that the Phan Thiet Airport will begin construction at the end of March and will be completed in 2022.
Major Lieutenant General Tran Don closed the above schedule in the meeting between the Defense Ministry and the Binh Thuan Province People’s Committee on the acceleration of the Phan Thiet airport project on the afternoon of March 5.
Lieutenant General Tran Don at a meeting with the Binh Thuan People’s Committee on March 5. Picture: Viet Quoc.
According to the plan approved by the Prime Minister in 2009, the Phan Thiet airport is 543 hectares wide, including a category 1 military airport with civilian level 4C. Civil aviation in the form of a BOT contract invested by Rang Dong Joint Stock Company. The project started in early 2015 and is expected to be completed in 2018, but after that the project was stopped.
In 2017, the Binh Thuan People’s Committee proposed to upgrade Phan Thiet 4C Airport to level 4E, the runway that runs from 2,400m to 3,050m. In February 2018, this airport was approved by the Prime Minister as one of the 15 national airports in the whole country with a grade 4E civil airport combined with a military level 1 airport, a total investment capital of approximately 10,000 billion copper.
Last time, the biggest problem with this project was investment capital, but now it’s solved. According to Major Lieutenant General Tran Don, in the past, the Defense Ministry had to wait for the auction of the old Nha Trang Airport to raise capital to invest in the Phan Thiet Airport. But then the Prime Minister agreed to invest in the construction of the airport with the state budget in the form of public investment.
“The government has allocated capital to the Ministry of Defense, so the construction of the Phan Thiet airport will soon roll out,” said Major General Tran Don. If the schedule is in time, after 20 months, this airport will operate together with the completion of the Dau Giay – Phan Thiet highway, in 2022.
Due to the change in planning, the project has to adjust a series of procedures in accordance with the regulations. Recently, the Ministry of Defense has completed the pre-feasibility study report dossier and submitted it to the Government Office to inform the Prime Minister for consideration and approval.
The land is planned to build the Phan Thiet airport project in Thien Nghiep commune. Picture: Viet Quoc
As the site clean-up work is almost finished, currently, 3 households (around 3.7 ha) have not agreed to relocate because they do not agree with the compensation price. Mr. Le Tuan Phong, chairman of the Binh Thuan People’s Committee ordered the Phan Thiet City People’s Committee to persuade these households to quickly clear the remaining land.
The chairman of the Binh Thuan People’s Committee requested the Department of Construction, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment to coordinate with the specialized units of the Ministry of Defense to conduct field studies of local material mines to determine reserves and ensure the supply. And reasonable. price.
At the meeting, representatives of Rang Dong Joint Stock Company – civil project investor (BOT) were also requested by the Ministry of Defense and Binh Thuan leaders to urgently complete the dossier for the modification of the pre-feasibility study report and present it to the competent. authorities for approval in order to rapidly deploy the same military category.
According to the current plan, by 2030, the country will have a total of 28 airports, including 15 national and 13 international. Phan Thiet Airport is one of the six domestic airports in the south, along with Buon Ma Thuot, Lien Khuong, Con Dao, Rach Gia and Ca Mau.
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