8:14 AM, 02/01/2011
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.
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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
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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%.
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Ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate Cần Thơ International Terminal, January 1, 2010 – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc
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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.
By Hải Minh
