Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern border province of QuangNinh will put into service three major transport projects in December this year,said Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Doc.

The Van Don international airport, the Hon Gai international port, andthe Ha Long-Van Don highway having a combined investment of 25 trillion VNDwill be operating between December 25 and 30, Doc announced after making a fact-findingtour of the three facilities on November 14.

The three projects have been invested by private companies with Sun Groupdeveloping the Van Don international airport and Hon Gai international port,the fields that have seen the participation of private companies for the firsttime in Vietnam.

When operating, the Van Don international airport will serve such bigjets as A350 and B777 and is capable of catering for 2.5 million passengers ayear by 2020 and 5 million passengers by 2030.

The airport authority has been working with the provincial authorities andother sectors concerned to seek for its markets, focusing on Southeast and AortheastAsia and local routes to destinations in the central and southern regions, likeHue, Da Nang, Cam Ranh, Da Lat and Phu Quoc.

Hon Gai international port, located on the Cua Luc river, was builtunder the private-public partnership form between Sun Group and Quang Ninhprovince.

It was designed to have a 524-m quay that is able to receive two cruiseships with capacity of up to 225,000 GT at the same time.

The port provides a five-star three-storey terminal covering 7,600square meters and a harbor serving 250 tourist boats carrying visitors to worldheritage site Ha Long Bay.

The Ha Long-Van Don highway stretches over 59 km, connecting with theHanoi-Hai Phong-Quang Ninh economic triangle, helping spur socio-economicdevelopment of the province and the northern key economic zone. It has a totalinvestment of around 14 trillion VND.

Investors said technical infrastructure of the three projects has beencompleted and they are speeding up the completion of required legal proceduresfor the operation of the Van Don international airport and the Hon Gaiinternational port by the end of December.

Doc said the province has signed a contract with investors to implement the VanDon-Mong Cai Expressway under the Built-Operation-Transfer (BOT) mode at a costof 13 trillion VND.


Quang Ninh spent over 2 trillion VND clearing around 90 percent of theground used for the road, he said.

Construction of the project is expected to commence late this year.-VNA