Details of projects to renovate and upgrade Vinh Airport during 6 months of closure
Vinh Airport (Nghe An) is expected to close in the last 6 months of 2025 to carry out renovation and upgrading projects invested by Vietnam Airports Corporation - JSC (ACV).
Accordingly, Vinh International Airport (Vinh Airport) will repair the 2,400m long, 45m wide runway; 2 taxiways measuring 73.9m long, 18m wide and 128m long, 18m wide; material curbs, brake strips, safety strips, signal paint, synchronized drainage, repair and replacement of signal systems and synchronized signs.
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The total investment of this project is 623.4 billion VND, with an expected construction progress of 6 months; starting before June 30, 2025, completing before December 30, 2025. Therefore, Vinh Airport is expected to close for a maximum of 6 months to carry out this item.
In addition, ACV is carrying out a project to renovate the Domestic Terminal with a scale including: Filling 5 atrium spaces of about 1,189m2; rearrange functional areas to optimize exploitation capacity, with a total investment of 68.36 billion VND. Construction progress is expected to be 8 months, starting before April 30, 2025, and completed before December 30, 2025.
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In addition, ACV is simultaneously carrying out a project to expand and renovate the aircraft parking lot with an area of 29,612m2.2; meet the exploitation of 9 Code C aircraft positions; material margins, drainage, fences, signal lights, signal paint, aircraft anchors, drainage... synchronously.
This project has a total investment of 236.6 billion VND. The construction progress is expected to be 8 months; starting before April 30, 2025, and completing before December 30, 2025.
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In the Master Plan for the development of the national airport system for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 approved by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 648/QD-TTg dated June 7, 2023, Vinh International Airport is a level 4E airport; with a capacity of about 8 million passengers/year by 2030; land area of 557.33 hectares. Estimated investment cost is 14,942 billion VND.
Vision to 2050: Capacity of about 14 million passengers/year, land area of 557.33 hectares, estimated investment cost of VND 8,905 billion.
Regarding detailed planning, the Ministry of Transport approved the planning of Vinh International Airport in Decision No. 201/QD-BGTVT dated February 19, 2025 as a level 4E airport, specifically:
Period 2021-2030: Expand terminal T1 to reach 5 million passengers/year and plan terminal T2 between the two runways to reach 3 million passengers/year, increasing the total capacity to 8 million passengers/year and 25,000 tons of cargo; code C and code E aircraft; extend the existing runway (runway 1) to 3,000m in size; parallel taxiway 180m from the center of the existing runway; apron reaches about 15 code C positions.
Vision to 2050: Construct runway 2 with dimensions of 3000x45m, east of the existing runway; expand the aircraft parking area of terminal T2 to 29 positions; expand passenger terminal T2 to a capacity of about 9.0 million passengers/year, bringing the total capacity of the entire port to about 14 million passengers/year; expand the cargo terminal to 35,000 tons/year.
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