Tho Xuan Airport in central Vietnam to go international

The airport in the central province of Thanh Hoa, 190 kilometers to the south of Hanoi, will have an annual capacity of 5 million passengers when it turns international. It will be used for both civilian and military purposes and be able to receive wide-body aircraft like the Boeing B747 and Airbus A350-900.

A new runway and a second terminal will be built and the existing one, with a capacity of 1.2 million passengers a year, will be upgraded.

A cargo terminal will also be built for the airport to receive 27,000 tonnes of cargo a year.

Thanh Hoa, the third most populated locality in the country behind Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, reported economic growth of 17 percent last year against the country’s 7 percent.

The government wants to make it an industrial province, developing the oil refining and petrochemicals, garment, footwear, cement, agriculture and fisheries sectors