The Maritime Administration of Vung Tau in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau said on February 5 night that it has been actively coordinating with competent agencies in implementing measures to support a Panama-flagged car carrier which caught fire off the Vung Tau coast.
The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has made great progress in its more than 30 years of existence, becoming a growth pole of Vietnam as a whole. This comes from the locality’s appropriate development policies, including the development of transport infrastructure.
A workshop on Ba Ria-Vung Tau’s role in the southern key economic zone’s supply chain took place in the province on November 9, introducing its potential and value to French investors.
More than 300 Sri Lankans who were rescued at sea off Vietnam are now in stable conditions and have been provided with temporary accommodations, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang told a press conference on November 9.
The southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau’s rescue force coordinated with representatives of the Sri Lanka Consulate General in HCM City to receive over 300 Sri Lankan nationals who were saved by a Japanese cargo ship after their boat faced a serious incident in the waters off the Vietnamese locality on November 8.
Ba Ria - Vung Tau, a popular tourist destination in the south of Vietnam, is seeing more visitors recently, a reminder of the attractive seaside resort’s potential in the post-pandemic period.
Fishing vessels without Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) devices are not allowed to go out to sea, according to Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province Nguyen Cong Vinh.
The Union of Friendship Organisations of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on September 15 held a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties (September 5) and the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (July 18).
Petrovietnam University (PVU), located in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, has been the first in Vietnam to receive accreditation from the US’ Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for all of its training programmes for a maximum six-year period.
Container ship NASICO SKY, sailing from Ho Chi Minh City to the central city of Da Nang, has rescued two fishermen who were drifting off Vung Tau beach, according to the Vung Tau Port Authority.
Deputy Minister of Transport Le Anh Tuan has freshly signed a document requesting competent agencies start projects at the Con Dao airport in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau in an effort to enable the airport to host 2 million passengers per year.
Vietnamese realty developer Danh Khoi Group and Japanese conglomerate Tokyu Corp on July 20 signed a comprehensive cooperation deal in developing The Meraki high-end resort project in the Mekong Delta province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau.
Con Dao Prison on the island of Con Dao, some 100 kilometres south of mainland Vietnam’s southern coast is one with lots of painful memories, once known as a “hell on earth.”
