WORDS ON THE STREET 70th anniversary of Hanoi's Liberation Day Vietnam - Asia 2023 Smart City Summit Hanoi celebrates 15 years of administrative boundary adjustment 12th Vietnam-France decentrialized cooperation conference 31st Sea Games - Vietnam 2021 Covid-19 Pandemic
Sep 11, 2016 / 10:41

Over 3,700 billion VND to construct Cam Ranh airport international terminal

The Ministry of Transport and People`s Committee of the central province of Khanh Hoa held a ground-breaking of international terminal project at Cam Ranh International Airport on September 8.

Cam Ranh International Terminal JSC began construction on an international terminal at Cam Ranh International Airport in the central province of Khanh Hoa on September 8. 
The two-storey work, worth over 3,700 billion VND, will cover an area of 50,000 square metres.
The project aims to meet recent robust growth in foreign tourists through the airport as well as to prepare for the development of the facility by 2030. 
The project will be carried out in three stages. The first stage is planned to be completed by 2018, enabling the terminal to greet 2.5 million passengers annually.
The number of passengers is expected to hit 4 million in the second phase and 8 million at the end of the third phase in 2030.
At the ceremony.
At the ceremony.
Addressing the ground-breaking ceremony, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Nhat said the project will help ease the current overload facing the airport. 
Deputy Minister Nguyen Nhat also asked contractors to ensure safety, environmental hygiene, order and security in the area during the construction period. 
In March, 2015, Khanh Hoa invested over 1,900 billion VND in building the second taxiway at Cam Ranh airport, which is scheduled to be put into use in early 2018. 
Cam Ranh airport was built by the US troops to serve its military missions during wartime and was converted into a civil airport in 2004. It was upgraded to an international airport in 2009. 
The airport served 3.3 million passengers in the first eight months of this year, including 1.5 million foreigners, while its designed annual capacity is 1.5 million passengers. 
In 2015, the airport welcomed more than 2.7 million passengers, including nearly 900,000 foreign passengers, exceeding its design capacity by 80 percent.