New Road Siem Reap Link to Angkor International Airport

New Road Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (AIAI) – This road about 60km from New Angkor Airport to Siem Reap City.

Chinese-owned firm Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport has unveiled plans to build a new 60km road, linking the airport to the Siem Reap city. To date, the firm has just completed the impact resettlement with the affected community.

Deputy Governor of Siem Reap province Ly Samrith said that the new road will be built to ease the increasing traffic between the airport and the city.

“The current section of National Road 6 linking to the new airport is very narrow, which will not be able to handle heavier traffic flow when the new airport is operational,” said Mr Samrith.
“It is a new normal road, not an expressway. However, the new road will be bigger than the existing section of National Road 6,” Mr Ly Samrith said.

According to Siem Reap provincial hall, the Chan Sar Choeung forestry community has recently received budget as compensation from the firm over the 11 hectares of land affected by the new road construction.

Invested in by China’s Yunnan Investment Holdings, the Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport is currently under construction. The project is about 35% complete and will finish by 2023 as scheduled. Source:construction-property

Angkor International Airport Investment (Cambodia) has confirmed that its new airport construction will finish as planned in 2023, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

This update was shared during a visit to the site by Tea Siha, the governor of Siem Reap province and a delegation of officials over the weekend.

The company said the deadline for the completion of construction is set for March of 2023. The project broke ground in March of last year.

The passenger terminal construction is now 15 percent complete with air field construction reaching 10 percent completion.

The firm says it plans for the project to be at least 67 percent complete by the end of the year.

Once the overall construction is completed as planned, the firm will focus on complying with air operation requirements.

The entire project includes the construction of new 4E runways, taxiways, airside stations, new terminal buildings, airport ancillary projects and supporting facilities including municipal and special highways.

The airport, located 51 km to the southeast of Siem Reap provincial city, is being built at a cost of $900 million. It is being constructed on a 700-hectare plot adjacent to its 1,000-hectare special economic zone.

“The new airport will bring in more tourists and contribute positively to the household economy of the locals as well as Cambodia’s growth at large,” the firm said. Source: khmertimeskh

Construction on the new nearly-$900 million airport project in Siem Reap province will be 67 per cent complete by the end of next year, according to Angkor International Airport Investment (Cambodia) Co Ltd (AIAI) chairman Lu Wei.

Lu made the remark during a second visit by Mao Havannall, the minister in charge of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA), to inspect the project’s progress on December 23.

While the spread of Covid-19 has resulted in unprecedented disruptions, Lu said construction is more than 30 per cent complete since the project broke ground on March 15.

He said the basement had been 100 per cent completed, and the ground and first floors of the passenger terminal building had been “100 per cent concreted”, while the second floor had been “25 per cent concreted”.

“On October 15, we started construction of the aircraft fuel depot, and on November 1, we started work in the flight area. So far, we have cleared 80 per cent of the land of the construction site,” he said.

Lu also confirmed that the flyover construction team started work on December 23.

In addition to the thoroughfare linking the project to National Road 6, the company has built an 8km road connecting National Road 64 to the passenger terminal, which will be paved soon, he said.

Fence-building and related works are underway for a 16.5km section of road that connects national roads 6 and 64, he said.

He said the company is currently in talks with Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), with plans in the pipeline to sign a memorandum of understanding with the state-run energy supplier next year for a new electrical substation and a 230kW power transmission line connecting to the project.

“According to our plan, by December 31, 2021, all construction work will be 67 per cent completed. Of this, 77 per cent of the passenger terminal project will be completed, 45 per cent of the flyover will be completed and 50 per cent of the other infrastructure work will be completed,” Lu said.

Havannall lauded the company’s efforts, despite the disruption fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hampered construction projects nationwide.

“We appreciate the company and colleagues for their hard work. Without their efforts, we couldn’t have reached today’s achievements . . . As Mr chairman Lu Wei said, he overcame the circumstances in which we were living in – Covid-19.

“Through Mr Lu Wei’s report, I can ascertain that we have more than 30 per cent of the overall project done . . . my conclusion is that this is in line with Mr Lu Wei’s claim that by the end of 2021, 67 per cent of the construction will have been completed,” he said.

Addressing Lu, Havannall added: “I hope that in 2021 you’ll have 67 per cent finished and that in 2022, we won’t have much work left . . . In 2022, we’ll complete our new Siem Reap airport.”

The new airport is being built on a 750ha plot in Ta Yek commune, Sotr Nikum district east of Siem Reap town at a cost of $880 million. The project is being built in three phases.

AIAI will invest $500 million for the first and second phases, which will allow medium-sized and ranged passenger aircraft like the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 to land. Another $300 million will be allocated for the third phase.

In October 2017, the government reached an agreement with Chinese state-run Yunnan Investment Holdings Ltd to build the new airport to serve Siem Reap.

The agreement gave the firm and its construction and airport management subsidiaries an exclusive 55-year build, operate, transfer (BOT) concession on the new airport, replacing the current exclusive agreement with Cambodia Airports, a company majority-owned by France’s VINCI Group, which was set to expire in 2040.

The airport will be able to handle 10 million passengers in 2030 and 20 million by 2050. Source: phnompenhpost

Siem Reap Airport ‘s FAQ:

Q: How do I get from Siem Reap airport to town?

A: When travelling the 9km distance from Siem Reap Airport to the city center, you have 3 options: you can take a taxi, a tuk-tuk, or a motorbike taxi. Travel time is about 20 minutes and costs $2-$10. Getting a taxi from the airport is the safest option.

Q: Where do you fly into for Angkor Wat?