On October 15, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev gave the official start to construction of a new Tashkent International Airport.
Passenger traffic to the Uzbek capital has tripled over the past eight years, reaching 9 million people per year, and will exceed 24 million by 2040. However, the existing airport, designed for 11 million passengers per year and located within the city limits, cannot be expanded. Therefore, a decision has been made to build a new international airport on an area of 1,300 hectares.
The project, implemented jointly with an international consortium of companies Vision Invest of Saudi Arabia, Sojitz of Japan, and Incheon of South Korea, includes four stages. In the first stage, costing $2.5 billion, an airport complex and an airfield will be built. Once completed, the airport will be able to handle up to 20 million passengers and 129 thousand tons of cargo annually, perform up to 30 takeoffs and landings per hour, use 14 telescopic ramps, and accommodate 62 aircraft simultaneously.
The new airport will fully comply with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for service quality, flight safety, and technical regulation.
The new airport will be the first in the region to comply with green building principles. The terminal will have a 46 thousand square meter duty-free zone.
The construction of the airport will be part of the formation of a multimodal transport hub. The new complex will be directly connected to the Tashkent-Samarkand, Tashkent-Andijan, and Tashkent-Bostanlyk highways. A modern railway station will also be built here, which will be served by high-speed trains, and a shuttle service will be established between the centers of Tashkent and New Tashkent.
The new airport will become not only a transport hub but also an economic center. The project will bring the country over $27 billion in revenue, contribute to the further development of the service sector, industry, and tourism, and create thousands of new jobs.
“Our goal is to turn Uzbekistan into a major aviation hub connecting East and West, North and South,” emphasized Mirziyoyev.
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