Ho Chi Minh City is getting a second airport, and it is a big one. Long Thanh International Airport, rising in Dong Nai province about 40 kilometers east of the city, is Vietnam’s largest-ever infrastructure undertaking. Phase 1 carries a price tag near $16 billion and a designed capacity of 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tons of cargo a year, with commercial operations targeted for late 2026.
Project Scope
The centerpiece is the passenger terminal, built under Package 5.10 by the Vietur consortium, a ten-member group led by Turkey’s IC Ictas alongside major Vietnamese contractors. The $1.49 billion package runs on a 39-month clock, and the terminal has moved into finishing and equipment installation with nearly 5,000 workers and more than 1,000 pieces of machinery on site. The lotus-inspired terminal design comes from Heerim Architects, with steelwork by ATAD and facade by BM Windows.
Long Thanh is meant to take pressure off the saturated Tan Son Nhat airport and eventually handle the bulk of international arrivals to southern Vietnam. It joins a global class of new terminal megaprojects racing toward 2026 open dates, alongside the New Terminal One at JFK.
Why It Matters
National airports are infrastructure and statement at once, and Long Thanh is Vietnam’s bid to anchor itself as a Southeast Asian aviation hub. The schedule is the strain. A late-2026 opening leaves little slack for a build this complex, and the connecting road and rail links have to land on roughly the same timeline or the terminal opens stranded. Get the whole system synchronized and Vietnam has a gateway built for the next several decades of growth. That coordination, not the terminal roof, is the hard part.
Project Team & Details
| Owner / Client | Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) |
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| Architect | Heerim Architects & Planners |
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| General Contractor | Vietur Consortium (IC Ictas-led) |
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| Major Subcontractors | ATAD Steel Structure Corporation (Steel)
Hawee Mechanical and Electrical (MEP)
BM Windows (Facade) |
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| Status | Under Construction |
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| Delivery Method | Design-Bid-Build |
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| Funding Source | Public (Federal) |
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