PM opens Cần Thơ Int’l Airport

VGP – PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng on the first day of the New Year cut the ribbon to inaugurate the Cần Thơ International Airport which is capable of serving up to five million passengers a year.

January 02, 2011 8:05 AM GMT+7

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (in the middle), former Party General Secretary Lê Khả Phiêu (fourth from the right) at Cần Thơ International Airport, January 1, 2010 – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc

Covering 20,750 sq. m in the Mekong delta city of Cần Thơ, the new terminal meets required standards of the Air Transport Association (IATA).

Cần Thơ International Airport has undergone two renovation phases, with the first one carried from September 2005, and the second one kicked off in 2008. It now becomes one of the country’s four biggest airport.

This year, some 211,000 passengers traveled through the airport, or a year-on-year increase of 39%.

Ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate Cần Thơ International Terminal, January 1, 2010 – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc

Addressing the opening ceremony, PM Dũng said that the newly upgraded airport will open great opportunities for Cần Thơ City in particular and the southwestern area in general to make fast and sustainable development.

. >> More photos of the opening ceremony of Cần Thơ International Terminal:

The overview of Cần Thơ International Airport – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (second, left) confers 3^rd grade Medal of Labor to the Southern Airports Corporation which manages Cần Thơ International Airport – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng takes joint photo – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc

By Hải Minh