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Thứ Năm, 12 tháng 10, 2017

Quang Ninh Calls for Investors in Tourism Real Estate

Real estate tourism investors are being called by Quang Ninh

Quang Ninh is becoming an open destination for tourism investors to come and set up business in Vietnam.
With the land area and sea surface of over 12,000 square kilometers, the topography of more than 2,000 islands spread over 250 kilometers of coastal lines, Quang Ninh is considered as a “small Vietnam” with the potential to develop green tourism. Therefore, it is not surprising that many travel experts perceive Quang Ninh is blessed with special values.
The first highlight of the Quang Ninh tourism journey is Ha Long Bay – the world natural heritage, the most typical and unique island in the island’s integrated marine tourism system. This system stretches 250 kilometers of sea route, linking Ha Long – Bai Tu Long – Van Don island – Bai Tu Long National Park – Co To island – Vinh Thuc island – Tra Co beach with Cat Ba National Forest (the World Biosphere Reserve) and the marine resources system of Hai Phong city. These remarkable advantages make Ha Long Bay along with Cat Ba, Do Son (Hai Phong) are prioritized to develop into national tourist area.
Along with Ha Long Bay, places like Quan Lan, Minh Chau, Ngoc Vung, Bai Dai, Van Hai white sand mine… (in Van Don island district); or Tra Co, Vinh Thuc (in Mong Cai city) … with beautiful beaches, natural forests, intact coral reefs around the islands, offshore locations, have created special values of Quang Ninh tourism.
In addition to natural advantages, Quang Ninh is the only province with land and sea borders with China, an important and vibrant trade gateway between Vietnam, China and ASEAN countries. That is why large investors want to choose Quang Ninh. From the end of 2013 up to now, Quang Ninh has attracted more than 100 projects with total investment capital of more than 5.5 billion USD, nearly half of capital concentrated in Ha Long city, of which the strong investment waves mostly focus on the field of tourism.
There is not only the presence of Vietnamese investors such as Tuan Chau, Vingroup, Sun Group, FLC…, the attractiveness of Quang Ninh is also reflected in the presence of billion-dollar-super-projects of giants investors from United States, China, Thailand, United Arab Emirates… The famous names such as Wyndham, Starwood, ISC Corp, Amata, Nakheel… have landed in Ha Long with huge investment plan.
In the development plan, Quang Ninh is calling for investment in 14 large-scale eco-tourism real estate projects (period 2016 – 2020) and many other projects to develop 4 major tourism centers: Ha Long; Mong Cai – Tra Co; Van Don – Co To; Uong Bi – Dong Trieu – Quang Yen.
Standing in the top on tourism investment attraction, the keys that help Quang Ninh to balance its economic benefits and resource conservation are unified planning, consistent development and a clear view on investment attraction.

Thứ Ba, 10 tháng 10, 2017

Tetra Pak Construct 110 Million USD Packaging Factory in Binh Duong


Japan-Vietnam economic cooperation will form a new value chain

Tetra Pak (Sweden) has started construction of a 110 million USD packaging factory on an area of 10,000 m2 and a total capacity of 20 billion packages per year at Vietnam – Singapore Industrial Park II – A (Binh Duong). This information has been announced since the end of 2016. The factory is expected to come into operation by the beginning of 2019.
According to the Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, this is the factory with largest scale among 54 projects that Sweden investors have invested in Vietnam.
Moreover, he affirmed that the factory could become the leading bird, leading many Swedish businesses to come and set up business in Vietnam.
Sweden was the first country in the Western region that establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam. There will be many Swedish multinational corporations want to invest in Vietnam. Therefore, Vietnam in general and Binh Duong in particular need to prepare better investment environment to catch the wave of FDI, especially from Sweden.
According to representative of Tetra Pak, this is the company’s most green packaging factory in their system, as well as the 4th largest packaging factory in East Asia and Oceania in terms of scale.
The two popular types of packaging will be produced at the factory including Tetra Brik Aseptic and Tetra Fino Aseptic.
According to Tetra Pak, dairy and beverage products in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand markets are expected to grow at a rate of 5.6 percent annually from now until 2019.
In Vietnam, milk production is still the largest sector in the country, which is expected to double consumption per capita to 28 liters per year by 2020. While the market for fresh fruit juice is expected to grow 17.5% in the next year. This is the basis for packaging factories – including Tetra Pak’s factory to expect fast growth in the near future.

Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 10, 2017

Hemaraj (Thailand) Builds Billion-Dollar Industrial Park in Nghe An

Japan-Vietnam economic cooperation will form a new value chain

Nghe An – a province located in the central region of Vietnam always has a lot of attractive incentives for foreign investors who come and set up business in Vietnam. In which, Nghe An has a number of solutions to support infrastructure enterprises to quickly implement large-scale industrial parks, including the Hemaraj industrial park – which is preparing to start construction.
According to the plan, at the end of October 2017, Hemaraj industrial park project in the South East Economic Zone will be started construction by Hemaraj Group (Thailand). construction work. The project has a total area of about 3,200 hectares, total registered investment of about 1 billion USD, divided into 7 phases, in which phase I has an area of nearly 500 hectares.
According to leaders of Nghe An province, the provincial leaders are providing maximum support to Hemaraj so that the project can started construction as soon as possible.
Prior to that, in September 2015, a joint venture between Sembcorp Group (Singapore) and Becamex IDC have kicked off the VSIP Nghe An project with an area of 750 hectares. Currently, the project has leveled and built synchronous infrastructure for about 100 hectares of industrial land phase 1A.
More than 90 companies from many countries and territories have come to seek information and investment opportunities at VSIP Nghe An and 10 companies have signed investment commitments with total investment capital of over 400 billion VND. By the beginning of September 2017, some companies was handed over land and started to build the plant.
In order to attract investment, leaders of Nghe An province will be more drastic in reforming administrative procedures. Accordingly, if foreign enterprises want to complete the investment license application, they should only go through the one-stop department of the Investment Promotion Center of Nghe An province.

Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 10, 2017

Ben Tre Province Welcomes Many Investment Projects

With the trend that many foreign enterprises come and set up business in Vietnam, recently, many investors have come to Ben Tre – the land of coconut to promote investment projects in various fields, with investment capital of tens of thousands of billion VND.
In addition to transport infrastructure, high quality coconut processing plant projects; projects in the field of tourism with the system of restaurants, hotels and resorts…, TTC Corporation is continuing to invest in the energy sector in Ben Tre province. Mekong Wind Power JSC (a member of TTC Corporation) has just been granted the investment decision by Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committees to invest in Binh Dai Wind Power Plant. The project has capacity of 30 MW with a total investment capital of 1,490 billion VND.
Moreover, the TTC Corporation also propose that Ben Tre province continue to create conditions for TTC to participate in locality – farmer connectivity programs to improve their gardens and create sustainable coconut material areas; construct Ben Tre coconut research center in Dong Go…
In addition, many other projects have just been granted investment decisions in Ben Tre, such as Ba Tri Wind Power Plant No.7 of Ben Tre Renewable Energy JSC (Ecotech), with total Investment capital of 6,543 billion VND; Binh Dai – Ben Tre wind power plant of joint venture between Asiapetro Energy JSC and Doarm Engineering Company (Korea), with a total investment capital of 180 million USD; the food processing factory of The Gioi Viet Co., Ltd with a total investment of 34 million USD…
Highly appreciating the investment environment in Ben Tre, General Director of The Gioi Viet Co., Ltd said that Ben Tre is a good place to invest because there are good policies, land rent expense is not high, the administrative procedures are very easy and provincial leaders are taking good care of businesses. Moreover, Ben Tre has abundant raw coconut materials to meet the production needs of enterprises; hardworking workers who have high sense of responsibility for their work.
According to the Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committees, with the effort of creating sustainable development, Ben Tre province will continue to improve the investment and business environments and accelerate the reform of administrative procedures. Coming to Ben Tre, investors will be given the most favorable conditions to approach and successfully implement their investment projects. Coming to Ben Tre is coming to a land that rich in potential, rich in affection and diversity of industries with many investment opportunities. Coming to Ben Tre, investors will realize that this place is really a reliable, safe and convenient destination with many opportunities for development.

First Solar Re-Launch Billion Dollars Project in HCMC

First Solar Corporation – one of the US investors have set up business in Vietnam in the field of high technology.
After several years of halt operation, First Solar Corporation (USA) has officially restarted the project of manufacturing solar panel with thin-film technology in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).
So far, First Solar’s project (in the Dong Nam Industrial Zone, Cu Chi district, HCMC, investment capital of 1.2 billion USD) is still the only and largest scale project, producing solar panel with thin-film technology in industrial parks and processing zones in HCMC. Therefore, the dynamics of investors involved in this project attracted great attention.
First Solar’s contractor has started work for about two months. Meanwhile, the investor is coordinating with the authorities to carry out the works such as making environmental impact assessment reports, import and export procedures… After completing the necessary works, Fisrt Solar will carry out the import of equipment and machinery for factory installation to prepare for production.
It is known that First Solar’s project was granted investment certificate in January 2011 and started construction in March 2011. However, 8 months after starting construction, the investor has announced a temporary halt to the project, due to the supply-demand imbalance of solar cell products in the global market.
According to a privileged information source, on early August 2017, representatives of First Solar Corporation is expected to meet and share information on the implementation of the project with leaders of HCMC.

Korea Leads FDI in Vietnam

The flow of FDI capital into Vietnam has continued to grow strongly over the years, demonstrating the confidence of foreign investors when deciding to set up business in Vietnam.
According to data from the Foreign Investment Agency (Ministry of Planning and Investment), the total amount of FDI capital such as new registered, capital increase, capital contribution and share purchase in the first 7 months of 2017 is 21.93 billion USD, increases by 52% over the same period in 2016.
Of these, the new registered capital was 12.92 billion USD, increases by 48.7% over the same period; the added capital was 5.87 billion USD, increases by 38.5% over the same period. The amount of capital that investors spend to contribute capital and buy shares in enterprises in Vietnam is 3.12 billion USD, increases by 109.7% over the same period in 2016.
According to the trend, more and more foreign investors have recently invested in Vietnam through capital contribution and share purchase. An increase of over 109% indicates that. Furthermore, data from the Foreign Investment Agency showed that by July 20th 2017, the FDI projects have disbursed 9.05 billion USD, increase by 5.8% over the same period in 2016. The rate of increasing in FDI capital disbursement is gradually improving compared to the first months of the year.


In the first 7 months of 2017, foreign investors have invested in 18 industries and sectors, of which the manufacturing and processing sectors have attracted the attention of foreign investors, with total capital of 10.83 billion USD, accounting for 49.4% of the total registered capital. The electronic production and distribution sectors ranked 2nd with total investment of 5.25 billion USD, accounting for 23.98% of total investment capital. Standing at the 3rd position is mining sector with total registered capital of 1.28 billion USD, accounting for 5.86% of the total registered capital.
Meanwhile, in terms of partner, Korea ranked 1st with a total investment of 5.62 billion USD, accounting for 25.63% of total investment capital. Japan ranked 2nd with total registered capital of 5.46 billion USD, accounting for 24.92% of total investment capital in Vietnam.
In terms of localities, Thanh Hoa is the most attractive province with the total registered capital of 3.06 billion USD, accounting for 13.9% of total investment capital. Bac Ninh ranked 2nd with total registered capital of 2.95 billion USD, accounting for 13.48% of total investment capital. Nam Dinh ranked 3rd with a total registered capital of 2.2 billion USD, accounting for 10% of total investment capital.

Thứ Tư, 4 tháng 10, 2017

IHI Corporation (Japan) Wants to Participate in Transportation Projects in Hai Phong

Japan-Vietnam economic cooperation will form a new value chain

Japan is a familiar investor in the Vietnamese market, many Japanese companies have set up business in Vietnam and IHI Corporation is not an exception.
Recently, Hai Phong People’s Committee has been working with the delegation of IHI Corporation (Japan) to explore opportunities to participate in transportation projects in Hai Phong. At the meeting, Mr Atsushi Kutawa – Managing Director of Operations, President in charge of business of IHI Corporation has talked about the company’s business situation with city leaders.
In particular, IHI has successfully built Binh bridge (Hai Phong) and Nhat Tan bridge (Hanoi). In 2015, the Group has built the IHI Infrastructure Asia (IIA) plant at Dinh Vu Industrial Park, which specializes in the manufacture of steel structures, supplying for bridge construction projects, thermal power plants and engineering facilities, serving for key construction works in the city.
Through investigation, it is known that there are plans to deploy Hai Phong transportation expansion projects, in which Nguyen Trai bridge and many key bridges connecting trade between the city and the northern provinces will be built. Hence, IHI Corporation wishes to have the opportunity to contribute their accumulated experiences to the cooperation and construction of these bridges.
Acordingly, Chairman of Hai Phong People’s Committee has highly appreciated the effective cooperation between Vietnam – IHI in the past time and also provide information about the bridge construction projects of Hai Phong in the coming time, like Nguyen Trai bridge, Vu Yen bridge…
In addition, he also expressed his wish that in the near future, IHI will explore and promote the cooperation in building bridges of Hai Phong. At the same time, in coordination with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), speed up the implementation of transportation projects, focusing on the Nguyen Trai bridge project.
Hai Phong always take care and create conditions for qualified contractors with high quality products. With the potential, efficiency and experiences of the IHI Corporation that has been confirmed, Hai Phong city will create the best conditions for the IHI Corporation to participate in the transportation development projects of Hai Phong in the coming time.