The terminal is slated for completion by March 2017 before the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to be held later that year.

The 44,000sq.m, two-storey terminal, with a capacity of four million passengers a year, will exclusively serve international flights.

The existing terminal, which serves both domestic and international flights now, will then become domestic.

Designed to handle six million passengers a year, the existing terminal was commissioned in late 2011.

Last year five million passengers passed through the airport, a 16 percent rise from 2013.

With a 15 percent annual growth rate in passenger numbers, the existing terminal would be overloaded soon, Le Manh Hung, head of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam, said earlier this year./.

( VNF )