Investors will be selected to build Sa Pa Airport with a capital of 6,393.8 billion VND from the third quarter of 2025.

Perspective of Sa Pa Airport.

The Chairman of Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee has just signed Decision No. 2051/QD-UBND approving the adjustment of Component Project 2 - construction of an Airport under the Sa Pa Airport Construction Investment Project, Lao Cai province under the PPP method.

Accordingly, Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee decided to maintain the approved scope and scale of phase 1 investment, including building Sa Pa Airport to meet the standards of a level 4C airport (according to the classification of the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO) with a capacity of 1.5 million passengers/year and a level II military airport.

Implement additional content to complete the items of phase 2 of the Project to achieve a capacity of 3 million passengers/year to ensure compliance with the planning, including the completion of the construction of 2 taxiways connecting terminal 14, adding a parallel taxiway connecting terminal 14 to the aircraft parking lot, taxiway width 23 m; construction of 3 additional parking positions for Code C aircraft and equivalent; expansion of the passenger terminal to reach a capacity of 3 million passengers/year (two phases); arrangement of telescopic bridges to pick up and drop off passengers...

The contract term of Component Project 2 is 46 years and 7 months (the time for preparing and appraising technical designs, designing construction drawings, and organizing the selection of contractors is 1 year; the time for operation, exploitation, and capital recovery is 43 years and 6 months; the estimated construction time for phase 1 is 2 years and 1 month); the construction time for phase 2 is within the operation, exploitation, and capital recovery time of the Project.

During the construction of phase 2, Component Project 2 is still operating and exploiting, so it does not affect the financial plan of the Project.

With the above investment scale, the total investment of Component Project 2 is 6,393,845 billion VND, including VAT, of which phase 1 is 3,982,122 billion VND; phase 2 is 2,411,723 billion VND.

In this Project, the owner's equity and loan capital are VND 3,537,946 billion; the state capital in the PPP Project is VND 2,855,899 billion (accounting for 44.38% of the total investment). The Project has the form of investor selection by domestic open bidding, without pre-selection; the time to organize investor selection is from the third quarter of 2025.

Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee assigned the inviting party (Department of Construction) to take the lead and coordinate with relevant agencies to complete the bidding documents, submit them to competent authorities for consideration and approval as a basis for selecting investors and organizing the selection of investors in accordance with the provisions of law.

Source: https://baodautu.vn/se-chon-nha-dau-tu-xay-cang-hang-khong-sa-pa-von-63938-ty-dong-tu-quy-iii2025-d313293.html