MYANMAR - focuses on its airport infrastructure

eTN Asia, 19-12-2006

Myanmar is reportedly planning to build an airport for a tourism-business-booming beach resort of Ngwesaung in the country’s southwestern division of Ayeyawaddy to facilitate local and foreign travelers.

Recently, it was shared that Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport, which is under extension, would have the capacity of accommodating larger aircraft such as Boeing-747 on completion. The new airport on completion can also handle about 2.7 million passengers a year against the present 500,000.

Ngwesaung’s silvery beach, about 30 miles from the town of Pathein, stretches an unbroken line for nine miles from Zee-Maw Village in the north to Majee-Maw Village in the south with its scenic and occasionally rocky shoreline, all set against a backdrop of tropical rain forests and the towering Rakhine mountain range.

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