L&T has begun engineering, design and procurement preparation for New Tashkent International Airport. Full site construction remains conditional on the consortium’s full NTP.
L&T has begun engineering, design and procurement preparation for New Tashkent International Airport. Full site construction remains conditional on the consortium’s full NTP.
Larsen & Toubro has begun pre-construction activities for the passenger terminal and landside infrastructure of New Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan after receiving a Limited Notice to Proceed (LNTP). The company announced the milestone on 19 October 2026.
According to L&T’s official release, the project’s PPP consortium issued the LNTP after execution of an EPC contract awarded earlier. Engineering, detailed design, planning and procurement preparation have started. Full site construction will follow the consortium’s full Notice to Proceed, subject to agreed contractual conditions.
The facilities in L&T’s scope are intended to handle approximately 17 million passengers annually. Work includes grading, roads, structures, architectural finishes, mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, utilities and airport systems.
L&T classifies the order as ultra-mega, its band for contracts above ₹15,000 crore. The release does not disclose an exact price, a full-NTP date or an equipment fleet.
Equipment Brief analysis: this is a material step for an Indian EPC contractor’s overseas pipeline, but equipment suppliers should separate procurement preparation from confirmed machine mobilisation. Early engineering can help define future work packages without fixing when each machine must reach the site.
A terminal-and-landside package also needs to be read within its stated boundaries. Suppliers should establish whether their opportunity sits within L&T’s scope, another contractor’s package or an interface between the two. The announcement alone is insufficient to allocate every part of the wider airport development to this contract.
The distinction between limited authorisation and full execution also appears in Equipment Brief’s coverage of L&T’s Chandrapura thermal-power LNTP. The conditions for each project are contract-specific and should be checked separately.
Based on the stated civil and infrastructure scope, potential applications span excavation and grading, compaction, concrete production and placement, lifting, access and materials handling. These are Equipment Brief’s assessment of possible work requirements, not announced equipment orders.
The eventual fleet would depend on the approved construction method, work-front sequence and subcontracting arrangements. Before reserving machines or pricing a long deployment, suppliers should seek package-specific quantities, production duties, access conditions, maintenance responsibilities and a confirmed mobilisation window.
For overseas supply, commercial teams should also establish responsibility for transport, local servicing, spare parts and operator support. Those questions determine whether a technically suitable machine can be supported throughout its assigned work. Our guide to batching and concrete-pumping equipment provides context for evaluating one part of that plant requirement.
For project tracking, the current status is an executed EPC contract with limited pre-construction activities under way. The next material confirmation will be full NTP and the resulting site-execution programme.
For equipment businesses, the immediate opportunity is to qualify requirements and establish procurement contacts. Revenue forecasts or fleet commitments should be tied to documented package schedules, rather than treating the LNTP announcement as confirmation that all physical work fronts are open.
Featured photograph: the existing Tashkent International Airport terminal, photographed on 16 April 2024 by BeshevI / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Context photograph of the existing airport, not a rendering or construction photograph of the new airport covered in this report. Displayed to fit the page. Reporting checked on 20 October 2026.
