Construction work of new airport starts

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A construction has started of the international airport in the valley of Khoshig in Sergelen soum, Tov province. The Japanese Mitsubishi-Chiyoda Alliance has been selected as the executor of this work. The valley is about 54 km south to Ulaanbaatar. The very first object to be erected will be a flight security provision building, and it will be followed by a new Zuunmod town. A construction is also expected of a high speed motorway that connects Ulaanbaatar with the airport, relay station and railway, Zuunmod factory, technological park, cargo terminal and complex of plant of thermal power plants. The 12,084.9 hectares of lands for the airport were issued June 2 of 2012 by Mongolian Government's resolution, and the airport's foundation stone was laid that time. The new airport will have capacity to serve 1 million 650 thousand passengers a year and to receive 6 airplane at the same time. To ensure a normal environment for the airport staffers, a new town for 100 thousand residents is needed. The new airport will have 30 structures and two runaways. Its annual capacity of goods freight will be 11,900 tons.