Originally built in 1949 at a heavily forested area 319 meters (1,048 feet) above sea level and 6 kilometers away from the city, it went through a major modernization which gave it a new runway 3.3 kilometers’ long, while the old one was fixed and turned to a taxiway, in the period between 2010 and 2015. A new terminal with modern bridges was also built by a Chinese company at a cost of 160 million dollars. The destination for IATA goes under the code of BZV which is actually an abbreviation of Brazzaville.