Foreign partner pledges
$2bn loan for Long Thanh airport project: official
Airplanes sit on
the tarmac at
A French company has been committed
to giving a loan of US$2 billion for
ADPi, a French company specialized in airport architecture
and engineering, has committed US$2 billion in loans to fund the construction
of
ADPi is a fully owned subsidiary of the Aéroports de
Paris Group.
Tieu revealed the information at an online talk hosted
in
The Deputy Minister elaborated that the government of
A report on Friday quoted Tieu as saying that the
premiers of
The US$2 billion loan commitment was made between
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan
Dung in late 2013, Tieu was quoted as saying.
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He added that however, that the two sides must have
“many talks” before the loan can be disbursed.
However, Hiroyuki Hayashi, First Secretary of the
Embassy of Japan to
“During the Japan-Vietnam Summit Meeting on December
15, 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just stated that
The airport, to be built in the eponymous district of
Dong Nai Province, around 30km east of Ho Chi Minh City, is projected to cost
$7.8 billion in its first phase, ending by 2025, and a hefty $18 billion for
all three phases.
Members of the public and economic experts have been
wondering why the transport ministry could put forward such a pricey project
during these hard times.
The transport ministry has said in the project’s
investment report that ODA loans and government bonds will cover 50 percent
of the investment required for the first phase.
“I must say even in the hard economic times, we will
still implement projects we deem effective and necessary,” Tieu said.
The deputy minister added that financing the project
with ODA loans and government bonds is inevitable as “build-operate-transfer
(BOT) and public-private partnership (PPP) investment in civil airport
infrastructure is unattractive to investors.”
The government thus must be in charge of building the
airport’s runways, taxiways, and aprons, he said.
Around $2.07 billion of the $7.8 billion investment
required for the project’s first phase will be allocated for infrastructure
development, according to the deputy minister.
“It will cost more than $1 billion for the airport
infrastructure, and nearly $1 billion for site clearance,” he elaborated.
Deputy Minister Tieu also said the Long Thanh airport
project is proposed on the basis of the economic effectiveness of the
aviation sector over the past time.
“The Asia Pacific region will remain the ‘hottest’
growing aviation market in the next ten years, which is forecast to expand by
up to six percent a year,” he said, citing the International Civil Aviation
Organization.
“So, the Long Thanh airport will bring in economic
effectiveness in the future.”
He added that the first phase of the project will be
further divided into two sub-phases, 1a and 1b, according to what he said is
“a very detailed calculation.”
“The 1a sub-phase alone will need $5.6 billion,” he
said.
The Long Thanh airport project has triggered intense
debate among aviation and economic experts and transport officials over the last
couple of weeks.
Advocates of
the plan defend the necessity to build the new airport as the country’s
largest terminal, Tan Son Nhat airport in
Opponents meanwhile
say Tan Son Nhat should be expanded and it is a huge financial burden for the
state coffers to fund the construction of Long Thanh.
TUOI TRE NEWS
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Thứ Sáu, 17 tháng 10, 2014
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