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| Perspective of the second terminal of Noi Bai International Airport |
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has committed to provide the project a loan of US$161.5 million, or a sixth of the total cost.
It is one of the major infrastructure projects underway in Hanoi to support the country’s socio-economic development.
The airport’s current terminal T1, which has a designed capacity of 5 million passengers a year, has become overloaded since 2007. It is now handling 11 million people a year.
Two other terminals T3 and T4 of the Noi Bai Airport are planned to be built after 2020.
Attending the ground-breaking ceremony yesterday morning, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai proposed the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam to make tight collaboration in management to ensure the project completed in due time and quality.
In August this year, construction began on a 12-km-long, six-lane road linking Noi Bai International Airport and Nhat Tan Bridge, and the distance between central Hanoi to the airport will be halved to 15 km when it is opened to traffic by 2014.
