Uzbekistan to start building New Tashkent International Airport this summer
Construction of the New Tashkent International Airport is scheduled to begin in June 2026. This was announced by Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of Transport, Jasurbek Choriev, on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in Samarkand, Qazinform News Agency learned from gazeta.uz.
Jasurbek Choriev stated that the public-private partnership agreement for the project is entering its final stage and is expected to be signed by mid-May. According to him, once the agreement is signed, the government will present a brief overview, following which the project will receive approval and construction will begin.
“We will begin construction of the New Tashkent airport in June,” he said.
The New Tashkent International Airport is planned to be built in the Tashkent region. The project will cover an area of 1,300 hectares and will handle 11 million passengers.
Plans for a new airport in Tashkent are driven by soaring demand: passenger traffic has tripled in the past eight years to 9 million annually and is projected to surpass 24 million by 2040.
It was previously reported that Kazakhstan plans to build four new airports.
