Hai Phong airport to get 2nd terminal

By Viet Tuan July 8, 2022 | 08:01 pm PT

Cat Bi International Airport in Vietnam's northern port city of Hai Phong. Photo by Hai Phong's news portal

The government has approved a new passenger terminal at the Cat Bi International Airport in the northern port city of Hai Phong.

T2 will be built by the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), which operates all 22 commercial airports in the country, at a cost of VND2.4 trillion ($102.75 million) and can handle five million passengers a year, according to a decision signed by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh Friday.

Once completed, it will handle domestic services while the existing T1 will become the international terminal.

The construction has a deadline of 18 months from the time the ACV receives the required land from city authorities.

T2 will also have a hangar and wastewater treatment plant.

Hai Phong has been seeking another terminal for Cat Bi since 2018 after T1 began to show signs of overloading.

The airport serves 4-5 million passengers a year.