PM approves hiring of foreign consultants for Tan Son Nhat airport expansion

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to hire foreign consultants in order to consider the expansion of the Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City without any limitations in the land use planning.

The Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
The Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

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The move is in line with Article 26 of the Law on Bidding on hiring international consultants in extenuating circumstances.

Foreign consultants will also be hired to assess the use of land for the aviation sector and build plans for the airport expansion along with adjusting the airport’s master plan as well as related developmental plans in the area to both the north and the south.

The Ministry of Transport will chair over the selection of competent, prestigious and experienced foreign consultants according to the country’s legal regulations.

The ministry was also tasked to decide on the use of funding which was sourced by the Vietnam Airports Corporation’s development investment fund with advice from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Finance.

The transport ministry has to take legal responsibilities for the selection of overseas consultants as well as its decisions on the aforesaid issues, and report to the Government leader in December 2017.

The ministry was also asked to closely work with the Ministry of National Defence and the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to create the best conditions for the selected foreign consultant(s) to perform their work.

Tan Son Nhat airport, with a designed with maximum capacity at 25 million passengers. The airport handled 32.5 million passengers in 2016. The expansion plan is expected to enable the airport to serve 40-45 million passengers per year.