VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Hoa Phat Group on December 19 broke ground on a more than VND10 trillion (US$410 million) plant to produce high-speed rail tracks and special steel products, marking a major step toward domestic production of materials for the country’s planned rail infrastructure projects.

Steel giant Hoa Phat Group said it has delivered the first batch of 500 40ft high cube container to US-based SeaCube Container Leasing – one of the world’s leading purchasers and lessors of refrigerated containers.

VOV.VN - Hundreds of Asian businesses will gather at the Southeast Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) Conference & Exhibition 2024 which is scheduled to take place in Vietnam’s central Da Nang city from May 13 to 16.

Many of the world’s leading shipping companies joining Intermodal Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands, have expressed their interest in containers produced by Vietnam’s Hoa Phat Group.

VOV.VN - Hoa Phat Group, Vietnam’s largest steel maker, said that it has received several export orders during the opening month of the year from markets such as the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, Malaysia, and Cambodia.

Hoa Phat Group has signed a contract to export 10,000 tonnes of steel wire in coil form to Europe.

A list of top public companies and those in the banking, insurance, and technology sectors in 2022 was released by the Vietnam Report JSC and VietNamNet newspaper on August 3.

VOV.VN - Hoa Phat Group, the nation’s largest steel maker, announced that it has signed a contract to export a shipment of 8,000 tonnes of construction steel to Mexico this August.

Although the 2020-2022 period was a tough time for both State-owned and private enterprises due to macro-economic fluctuations after the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided a good chance for businesses that managed to exist and make breakthrough growth, according to a report by Vietnam Report JSC.

VOV.VN - Hoa Phat Group (HPG), a private economic group specialising in steel production, has been included in this year's list of the world’s 2,000 largest listed firms as compiled by Forbes.