The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) on April 30 broke the ground on the Hau Giang shipyard, one of the four shipyards in the Hau Giang industrial park in the Mekong River Delta.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung praised the tremendous efforts made by southern Hau Giang province and 50,000 VINASHIN workers and engineers in finalising procedures and fulfilling a great volume of work to start the project at a time when the country is celebrating the 32nd anniversary of Southern Liberation Day and National Unification.
Ten years ago, VINASHIN was only able of building ships with a tonnage of 10,000 but now it is capable of building ships with tonnages ranging from 50,000 and 100,000. VINASHIN orders with foreign partners have so far amounted to a value more than US$10 billion.
The Hau Giang shipbuilding industry project is in line with the Party policy on the development of the marine-based economy and the Political Bureau’s resolutions on the development of the Mekong River Delta and Can Tho City, said Mr Dung.
He asked VINASHIN to establish a plan to strictly control the corporation’s investment capital and development strategy to ensure quality and efficiency while focusing on training human resources to meet requirements for highly-skilled workers at large shipyards in the near future.
If the four industrial parks are built by 2010, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created, helping to enhance industrial production values of localities and the region as a whole.
Therefore, PM Dung asked localities in the Mekong River Delta to focus on speeding up the shipping industry along with the development of urban areas, residential areas and environmental protection. While building the four industrial parks, PM Dung asked local authorities to take consideration of arranging land acquisition to resettlement for people. He proposed providing training for people whose land will be used in the building of industrial parks.
The Hau Giang shipyard, as part of the Hau Giang industrial park, is located at Dong Phu commune, Chau Thanh district. VINASHIN general director Pham Thanh Binh pledged to complete the construction of the yard by 2010. The VND1,100-billion yard will be built in two phases. In the first phase, the shipyard will be able to build 30,000-tonne vessels and attract more than 5,000 labourers. In the second phase, it will be able to build vessels from 50,000 to 70,000 tonnes.
The 290-ha Hau Giang industrial park, with a total capitalization of VND1,700 billion, will have the largest regional container building yard with a design capacity of 120,000 containers per year, a high capacity engine assembling plant, as well as generalized and specialized ports. This is the ninth large-scale industrial park that VINASHIN has built across the country.
Add new comment