Multi-storey workshop buildings to go up in HCM City
Developers of infrastructure for
industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) in HCMC are
piloting schemes to construct multi-storey workshop buildings for small
and medium manufacturers, according to The Saigon Times Daily.
Tran
Viet Ha, head of the investment department at the HCMC Export
Processing Zone and Industrial Park Authority (Hepza), said construction
of the multi-storey workshop facilities will help enterprises,
especially those in supporting industries, have small space for
production.
In the initial stage, the multi-storey workshop
buildings will be up and running at the Dong Nam and Hiep Phuoc IPs and
the Linh Trung and Tan Thuan EPZs.
These structures will have three to eight stories and total floor space of 10,000-40,000 square meters each.
The
multi-storey workshop model is popular in the Republic of Korea, Japan
and Taiwan (China) but new in Vietnam. This model will be deployed in
the city to make full use of limited land for production activity at IPs
and EPZs.
Multi-storey workshop buildings are appropriate for
producers of items which are not heavy and particularly makers of
hi-tech and supporting industry products, Ha was quoted by the newspaper
as saying, adding that tenants should have efficient waste and emission
treatment solutions, though.
Ha said the city will continue
encouraging enterprises to invest in ready-to-use workshops for such
tenants and this model has helped the city attract investors, especially
foreign-invested enterprises in the past year.
In 2014, 19
foreign-invested firms were licensed to lease production workshops at
the Cat Lai and Tan Thuan IPs, which are near the centre of the city,
seaports and roads including Nguyen Van Linh and the 20km-long section
of HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway.
Last year, the IPs
and EPZs in the city attracted investment pledges of over 752 million
USD, 36.8 percent higher than targeted and up 23.52 percent against the
previous year. Of which, foreign investments accounted for 347.5 million
USD, a slight decline of 4.39 percent over 2013, but domestic
investments grew 64.8 percent to 405 million USD.
The target for IPs and EPZs this year is 700 million USD probably due to global economic uncertainties.-VNA