Attapeu International Airport has a total investment of US$36 million funded by Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company. It was built by the Lao Government over two years commencing in May 2013 under the build-transfer (BT) form.
The airport includes a 4,300 square metre terminal, capable of serving 300 passengers per day along with a 1,850m runway that can cater for ATR-72 and Fokker aircrafts.
It is a key project in southern Laos, which is of political and socio-economic importance to both the country and neighbouring Vietnam.
At the inauguration ceremony, President Truong Tan Sang thanked the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and Government as well as Attapeu authorities for creating favourable conditions for Vietnamese projects as well as the airport construction in southern Laos.
He said the Attapeu Airport project illustrates the efficiency, practicality, and diversity of the two countries’ economic ties, including partnerships between their business circles.
He also took the opportunity to ask Vietnamese companies to continue promoting their attainments by boosting business co-operation while supporting social activities in Laos, ultimately consolidating the special solidarity and friendship between the two neighbouring Southeast Asian nations.
For his part, LPRP General Secretary and State President Choummaly Sayasone hailed the Vietnamese leader’s presence at the ceremony as proof of the solidarity and special relations between the countries.
He highly valued Hoang Anh Gia Lai’s efforts in shortly implementing and completing the project, which will help forge connections among domestic localities and between Laos and regional nations, thus enhancing people-to-people exchanges and economic and tourism collaboration.
