2016-02-22

As of a finish of Jan 2016, there were 20,056 foreign

direct investment projects in Vietnam with a sum collateral sum of $280

trillion. Many multinational companies are benefaction and continue to

expand their investment in a country.


Samsung

Electronics CE Complex JSC has due for taxation favoured treatment

for a devise in Saigon Hi-tech Park. – Photo vtv.vn

The projects are mostly industrial in nature, with a lion’s share

being steel, power, and manufacturing, as good as genuine estate. The

presence of large multinational companies, such as Intel, Samsung, Posco,

and LG, indicates that Vietnam is an appealing finish due to

competitive work costs and a ever-improving business environment.

On a other hand, Vietnamese companies have been gradually

increasing their ability and product peculiarity in sequence to join the

global supply chain. However a tie between Vietnamese and

foreign companies stays weak.

Below is a list of mega unfamiliar approach investment (FDI) projects

licensed during a 10-year duration from 2006 to 2015 and their current

status:

1) $1.1 billion Posco devise in Ba Ria-Vung Tau

Licensed in 2006, a devise directed to build a steel plant on an area

of 130 hectares. While a plant is going to work for 48 years,

producing cold and prohibited rolled, as good as galvanized steel items. The

first proviso of a plant was finished in 2009 during a cost of $340 million

and now has a sum ability of 700,000 tonnes per year.

2) $1 billion Intel devise in Ho Chi Minh City

Intel Corp initial announced a $300 million investment for an

assembly and exam plant in Vietnam in 2006. The firm’s sum registered

investment was lifted to $1 billion during a following year.

The $1 billion plant in Ho Chi Minh City went into operation in 2010.

In Nov 2014, a association stretched a plant with an additional CPU

production line.

3) $80 million Foxconn devise in Vinh Phuc

The devise has a purebred collateral of $200 million. It was licensed

in 2008 with an approaching start of operation in 2009. However, in July

2015 a permit was revoked following a investor’s disaster to

complete a plant’s construction.

4) $100 million Jabil Circuit devise in Ho Chi Minh City

Licensed in 2007, a devise named Jabil Vietnam Ltd, invested by

Jabil Circuit Singapore PTE. Ltd, is located in Saigon Hi-Tech Park on

an area of 5 hectares and produces computers, as good as office,

telecom, and medical equipment, consumer electronic devices, and

precision cosmetic moulds. In Jul 2015, Jabil was certified to invest

another $500 million to enhance a project.

5) $500 million Keangnam building in Hanoi

Licensed in 2007 and finished in 2010, Keangnam Hanoi Landmark

Tower, was grown by a Vietnamese auxiliary of South Korean

Keangnam Enterprises Keangnam Vina. Located on 4.6 hectares on Pham Hung

Street in west Hanoi, a building is now Vietnam’s highest

building.

With a sum investment collateral of some-more than $1 billion, the

72-storey building comforts a 5-star hotel, offices and apartments for

lease, and dual 48-storey unit towers with a sum of 922

apartments. The apartments were sole during an normal cost of $3,000 per

square metre.

Since 2011, 7 particular buyers of 10 apartments in a Tower

have sued Keangnam Vina, claiming that a association disregarded several

contract terms.

The building was recently acquired by South Korea’s AON Holdings during the

price of $800 million. The sale was conducted to solve Keangnam’s

liquidity problems.

6) $9.8 billion Ca Na steel devise by Vinashin-Lion in Ninh Thuan

At a time of a chartering in 2008, Malaysian association Lion Group

and Vinashin’s corner try was a biggest unfamiliar approach investment

project ever protected in Vietnam. Construction started in Nov 2008,

however, due to financial difficulties, swell was delayed and

consequently Lion Group withdrew. In 2011 Ninh Thuan range revoked

the project’s investment certificate.

7) $7.9 billion Hung Nghiep Formosa steel prolongation plant in Ha Tinh

The devise was protected in 2008 and has seen a lift to a collateral to $9.9 billion in 2012.

The formidable includes a steel plant with a ability of 22 million

tonne a year, a low H2O pier complement that can accommodate 300,000 DWT

ships, and a 2,100 MW thermal energy plant. Upon reaching completion,

Hung Nghiep Formosa is going to be a biggest steel prolongation complex

in Southeast Asia.

The initial proviso of a complex, that cost $10.5 billion, is expected

to be finished by a finish of 2016. As of Oct 2015, according to

the Ha Tinh Department of Planning and Investment, a financier was

planning to boost a collateral to $28.5 billion.

8) $6.2 billion Nghi Son refinery in Thanh Hoa

Invested by 4 companies, namely PetroVietnam, Kuwait Petroleum

International, and Japanese companies Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui

Chemicals, a refinery was protected in 2008. With an area of 400

hectares, a refinery produces LPG, Ron 92 and 95 fuels, diesel, fuel

oil, jet fuel, polypropylene, para-xylene, benzene, and sulfur.

The investors lifted a collateral by $2.8 billion in 2013 to make the

refinery a biggest oil refinery and petrochemical devise ever

licensed in a country. It is scheduled to turn operational in 2017

and strech a limit annual ability of 9.62 million cubic metres of

petroleum products by 2018.

9) $4.3 billion New City devise in Phu Yen

The project, protected in 2008, is an investment of Brunei-based New

City Properties Development. Occupying an area of 560 hectares, the

project was ostensible to embody a resort, hotel, villas, bungalows, a

cruise port, and several sea party facilities. However, the

project was entrance along rather slowly.

In Sep 2014, a People’s Committee of Phu Yen authorised the

investor to revoke a devise area to 357 hectares and a investment

capital to $1 billion.

Sun Rise Vietnam, a corner try between South Korean companies

Hyundai Telecom and Hwa Pyung Holding, now binds 70 per cent of the

project. The remaining stakes are hold by companies from China, a US,

and Australia.

In Jun 2015, New City Vietnam Ltd hold a project’s belligerent breaking

ceremony. Local authorities pattern a devise to turn a prominence of

the range and a vital traveller attraction.

10) $4.2 billion Ho Tram devise in Ba Ria-Vung Tau

The Grand Ho Tram Strip Hotel was protected in 2008, and grown by

Ho Tram Project Company Ltd, infancy owned by US comment Harbinger Capital

Partners. The initial proviso of a five-star entirely integrated resort

opened in Jul 2013. This is a initial review in Vietnam with permission

to work a casino on a premises.

In Dec 2015, Ho Tram Project Company Ltd sealed an agreement

with Vietnamese association CotecCons to make condo towers on a 164 hectare

area of a devise site.

11) $4.15 billion Dragon Beach tourism zoneproject in Quang Nam

Licensed in 2009, a 400-hectare Dragon Beach tourism section was

planned to be a breakwater of a beachfront hotel, an general conference

centre, and a casino. At a time of chartering a section was hoped to

attract tourists to Dien Duong beach and boost  Quang Nam province’s

general tourism revenue, as good as to assistance rise a tourism scene.

In 2010, a project’s investment certificate was revoked after a long

pause.

12) $2 billion Nhon Trach Berjaya Dong Nai New City in Dong Nai

Licensed in 2009, a devise is located on a 600 hectare site in

Dongnai province, about 25 kilometres from downtown Ho Chi Minh City. It

will residence a theater, informative house, square, muster centre,

museum, executive quarter, and blurb and amicable facilities

such as offices, hotels, serviced apartments, food and libation outlets,

and party spaces, sports centre, hospital, open immature spaces

and infrastructure.

Developer Berjaya Land Bhd, a auxiliary of Berjaya Corporation

Berhad, settled in Oct 2015 that a construction of a devise will

begin in 2016.

13) $500 million South Tuy Hoa Creative Town devise in Phu Yen

Licensed in 2009, a $11.4 billion devise invested by US company

Galileo Investment Group Inc. was set to build a 7,656-hectare modern

township with high-tech information record facilities, trade

centers, and tourism parks. It was dictated to be a lodestone to attract

companies and investors to a area. Since a licensing, however, the

investor have not acted to lift out a project, heading to the

People’s Committee of Phu Yen revoking a investment certificate in

March 2011.

14) $4 billion South Hoi An devise in Quang Nam

South Hoi An project, a formidable including a residential and a

commercial area, a resort, and several gaming facilities, was licensed

in Dec 2010. VinaCapital and VinaLand Limited, a closed-end fund

managed by a former, designed to rise a devise with Malaysian

company Genting Berhad. However, in Sep 2012, Genting withdrew

from a project, withdrawal VinaCapital to adjust a devise plan in

mid-2013, rescheduling a initial proviso to start operation by a finish of

2015.

In Sep 2015, VinaCapital announced a newfound partnership

with Hong Kong association Chow Tai Fook in a project. VinaCapital

continued to be a vital shareholder. Now a initial proviso is set to

start construction in 2016.

15) $2.1 billion Mong Duong 2 thermal energy plant in Quang Ninh

Licensed in 2010, Mong Duong 2 thermal energy plant by AES-VCM Mong

Duong Power Company Ltd.—a corner try of The AES Corporation (USA)

affiliates, Posco Energy (Korea), and China Investment Corporation

(China)—, Mong Duong 2 thermal energy plant is Vietnam’s initial and

largest thermal energy plant built in a BOT (build-operate-transfer)

format, with a 1,240 MW capacity.

In Oct 2015, a plant strictly started operation. The plant

produces 7.6 billion kWh of electricity per year. It is going to be

transferred to a Vietnamese supervision after 25 years of operation, in

2040.

16) $1 billion Kobelco steel plant in Nghe An

Licensed in 2010, Japanese Kobe Steel’s plant was to work during a

capacity of 2 million tonnes per year. The tender materials for steel

production would be sourced from Thach Khe iron cave in Ha Tinh and the

coal used in a prolongation routine from Quang Ninh.

As of Oct 2015 construction of Kobelco steel plant was nonetheless to

start due to delays in a exploitation of Thach Khe mine. According to a

member of a People’s Committee of Nghe An province, Kobe is working

with Thach Khe Iron JSC, a owners of a mine, on a intensity purchase

of shares in a company. A VIR source commented  that negotiations had

been going on for dual years now and a dual parties had nonetheless to strech an

agreement.

17) $902.5 million Skybridge Dragon Sea review devise in Vung Tau

Skybridge Dragon Sea MICE project, invested by US-based Skybridge

Intercontinental Development Corporation, was Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s

largest devise in terms of purebred collateral during a time of its

licensing in 2010.

As of now, a devise has nonetheless to be carried out. The delay,

according to Skybridge authority cum CEO Michael Nguyen, a land rental

fees rose too high over a past few years. According to Nguyen, the

rent specified by a province’s Department of Finance rose from VND325

billion ($14.6 million) in 2010 to VND1.7 billion ($76.2 million) in

2012 when a association was to start construction.

Bui Ngoc Diep, authorised deputy of Skybridge in Vietnam, told VIR

that a association would like to start a construction in 2016 and

proposed that a range request a favoured land let assign for

the roject.

18) $2.26 billion Jaks Hai Duong thermal energy plant

The 25-year BOT 2×600 MW devise by Malaysian association Jaks Resources

Bhd was protected in 2011. Preliminary construction work on a project

has already started, with a land clearing and range walls

completed.

In Jul 2015 Jaks Resources Bhd inked agreements with China Power

Engineering Consulting Group Co Ltd (CPECC) to jointly rise a plant

through a 50:50 corner venture.

19) $1 billion First Solar photovoltaic row prolongation trickery in Ho Chi Minh City

Licensed in 2011, US-based First Solar’s plant was to be grown in

two phases. The initial phase, with an investment value of $300 million,

would have a ability of 250MW per year and would go into operation in

2012.

However, 8 months after a start of construction, a investor

called a halt, due to a tellurian direct and supply imbalance for solar

power panels. In 2014, a association was reported to have finished all

legal procedures to sell a resources in Vietnam.

20) $452.38 million S-Telecom mobile use project

Licensed in 2001 by a consortium including South Korean wireless

telecommunications user SK Telecom, a devise directed to provide

CDMA services in Vietnam.

At a peak, S-Telecom had 3.1 million users. The association was also

the initial in Vietnam to yield 3G services. In 2012, as business took a

plunge due to complicated competition, S-Telecom withdrew from a country,

leaving behind a antennae on a roofs of many residential houses. The

company formerly paid homeowners to implement these antennae.

21) $1.2 billion Tokyu Binh Duong New City

Licensed in 2012, Tokyu Binh Duong New City is a 1,000-hectare

industry-service-urban formidable in Binh Duong, invested by Becamex Tokyu

Ltd—a corner try between Vietnamese association Becamex IDC Corporation

and Japanese association Tokyu Corporation.

Binh Duong authorities estimated that sum investment into the

complex is going to surpass VND150 trillion ($6.7 billion) by 2020. Many

domestic and unfamiliar investors have built high-rise buildings and

carried out low-price blurb housing projects in a province, but

sales tumble next expectations.

22) $574.8 million Bridgestone radial tyre prolongation plant in Haiphong

Licensed in 2012, a plant invested by Japanese tyre manufacturer

Bridgestone started operation in Oct 2014. Currently, a plant

boasts a ability of 6,000 tyres a day. As of Jan 2016, in a meeting

with Haiphong authorities, leaders of a association talked about the

prospect of enlargement and about offered a products in Vietnam instead

of producing quite for export.

23) $2.018 billion Vinh Tan 1 thermal energy plant in Binh Thuan

Licensed in 2013, a BOT plant is an investment of a consortium of

two Chinese companies and Vietnam National Coal – Mineral Industries

Holding Corporation Ltd (Vinacomin). The plant is partial of Vinh Tan

Thermal Power Complex, that consists of 4 projects with a total

capacity of 5,600 MW. This is a country’s largest coal-fired thermal

power plant.

While Vinh Tan 1, 3, and 4 sojourn underneath construction, Vinh Tan thermal plant 2 has started operation in Jan 2014.

The operation of a plant sparked clever antithesis from residents

in a surrounding area on comment of possible/potential pollution

hazards. Due to clever coastal winds, Vinh Tan thermal plant 2 is

obscured by smoke and dust, notwithstanding efforts to frequently irrigate/water

the area, as compulsory by internal authorities.

In Apr final year, thousands of people blockaded National Highway No

1A, interlude trade for hours to protest about spark dirt and cinder

from a energy complex, generally a newly built Vinh Tan No 2.

The Binh Thuan People’s Committee urged a energy formidable management

board to stop all executive work in box breeze speed surges to turn 8

and 9 (60 to 88 km per hour).

24) $2 billion Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen

Licensed in 2013, Samsung Electronics’ Vietnam Thai Nguyen plant

started operation in 2014, contracting 5,000 workers and producing two

million products per year. The devise has helped Thai Nguyen attract

investment from Samsung’s crowd of suppliers, too.

25) $1.5 billion LG Electronics Haiphong Campus

The devise was protected in 2013 and as shortly as Mar 2015, LG

Electronics non-stop a categorical trickery of a project. The

800,000-square-metre trickery will residence prolongation lines to manufacture

TVs, mobile phones, soaking machines, atmosphere conditioners, and car

infotainment systems for both a domestic and abroad markets.

26) $1 billion Bus Industrial Center in Binh Dinh

Russian financier Bus Industrial Center Ltd’s devise was protected in

2013, with a perspective to build a bureau to furnish gangling tools for buses

and yield associated services.

As of now, a devise is stranded during a standstill.

27) $3 billion Samsung Thai Nguyen proviso II

In 2014, Samsung perceived a permit to deposit $3 billion into the

second proviso of Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen plant (SEVT 2),

raising a facility’s sum investment collateral to $6.5 billion. SEVT 2

was designed with a ability of 10 million products per month and to

employ 30,000 workers.

28) $1.4 billion Samsung CE Complex Ho Chi Minh City

Licensed in Oct 2014, construction of Samsung’s Ho Chi Minh City

complex started in May 2015 on a 70 hectare area of Saigon Hi-tech Park

(SHTP). The formidable is approaching to come into operation in Feb 2016.

SHTP has recently postulated investment licences to several projects worth

more than $120 million that will furnish components for a complex.

In Dec 2015, Samsung was included with an investment certificate

to enhance a devise by $600 million, bringing a complex’s total

investment value to $2 billion.

Samsung will set adult a investigate and growth centre for audiovisual inclination and yield pledge services during SHTP.

29) $1.25 billion Phoenix Beach devise by Dewan International in Khanh Hoa

The devise was protected in 2014 by Dewan International, a

Hongkong-based auxiliary of Indian genuine estate developer Dewan Group.

The devise pattern includes a 42-floor 5 star hotel to be built on

74.16 hectares of land and H2O surface.

In Sep 2015, a devise investment certificate was revoked by

the People’s Committee of Khanh Hoa range on a basement of the

investor’s disaster to supply a purebred collateral according to

schedule.

30) $1 billion Samsung Display Bac Ninh project

Licensed in 2014, Samsung Display project, that produces screens for

mobile phones, started operation in Mar 2015. The devise aims to

supply a dual Samsung plants in Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen with screens

and has ability of 48 million products per year. In Aug 2015 Samsung

increased a project’s sum investment volume by an additional $3

billion.

31) $2.018 billion Duyen Hai 2 thermal energy plant in Tra Vinh

Licensed in 2015 by Malaysian Janakuasa (Malaysia), Duyen Hai 2 thermal energy devise is going to be built in a BOT format.

The devise has dual turbines with a sum ability of 1,200 MW. Construction is going to start in a second entertain of 2016.

The plant, that is approaching to go on tide before 2020, will be one

of a 4 thermal energy plants in Duyen Hai Power Centre. The

remaining plants, representing a $6 billion investment by the

Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN), are Duyen Hai 1, Duyen Hai 3, and

Duyen Hai 3 extension.

Once completed, a energy centre will minister to a inhabitant energy grid an additional ability of 30 billion kWh annually.

32) $1.2 billion Empire City in Ho Chi Minh City

The developer is a corner try of Tien Phuoc Real Estate JSC, Tran

Thai Real Estate JSC, and UK-based Denver Power Ltd—a auxiliary of

multinational financial association Gaw Capital Partners—with a two

Vietnamese companies contributing 50 per cent of a capital.

Licensed in 2015, a devise is approaching to be finished in 2022.

Occupying a 14.5-hectare area on a bank of a Saigon River, the

project is going to embody a trade centre, a five-star hotel, office

space and apartments, and a multifunctional building of 86 floors.

Construction started in Oct 2015.

33) $1 billion Cheng Loong Binh Duong wrapping plant

In Dec 2015, Taiwanese industrial paper writer Cheng Loong

received a investment certificate to build a $1 billion packaging

factory in a southern range of Binh Duong.

The plant is going to be built on an 80-hectare land tract in Ascendas

Protrade Singapore Tech Park and will have a ability to pull out one

million tonnes of industrial paper and consumer paper products per

year.

Cheng Loong now has 29 plants all around a world, providing

supply wrapping to large companies, such as Apple and Nike. The

Vietnamese plant is Cheng Loong’s biggest ever, according to the

company’s boss Tsai Tong Ho.

VIR

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