Excitement at the large construction site
At the beginning of 2026, construction is bustling at the construction site in Vung Ang Economic Zone (EZ). Machinery and workers are diligently working at the central main road project connecting National Highway 1 (circulation section of old Ky Anh town) to Vung Ang - Son Duong deep-water port cluster.
This is a project with a total investment of 1,437 billion VND, of which 1,000 billion VND is from the central budget and 437 billion VND is from the local budget. To date, the project is in the "sprint" stage of completion and commissioning.
Mr. Nguyen Thang Long - technical officer of Ha Tinh Industrial - Construction and Trading Development Joint Stock Company said that the Company is focusing on pouring the base stone layer of the roadbed of package No. 18 of the Central Main Road Project connecting National Highway 1 to Vung Ang - Son Duong deep-water port cluster.
After the Lunar New Year holiday, we will return to the construction site from January 6 to carry out asphalt concrete pavement to complete the package," Mr. Nguyen Thang Long shared.
At the construction site of the VinFast electric motorcycle factory, it is the busiest. Here, hundreds of machines and thousands of workers are focusing on construction.
An official of the Project Management Board said that there are currently about 3,500 people constructing the VinFast electric motorcycle factory in Vung Ang. To speed up progress, the contractor is expected to arrange hundreds of workers to construct throughout Tet.
The investor's goal is to put the electric motorcycle factory into operation from March 2026. Therefore, currently, in addition to accelerating the construction progress of the factory, the investor is also recruiting 2,000 workers.
In Vung Ang Economic Zone, Vinhomes Ha Tinh Industrial Park Investment Joint Stock Company (under Vingroup Group) has also started the project to invest in construction and business of Vinhomes Vung Ang Industrial Park infrastructure with a total investment of more than 13,276 billion VND, land use scale of nearly 965ha.
Efficiency in attracting investment and creating jobs
Mr. Nguyen Van Nam - Production Human Resources Director of VinFast Production and Trading Joint Stock Company - Ha Tinh Branch - said that from now until the end of 2026, the Company needs to recruit about 8,000 workers, on average each month it needs to recruit an additional 700 to 1,000 workers to meet the needs of both the electric car factory and the VinFast electric motorbike factory in Vung Ang.
In 2025, Vung Ang EZ attracted many large projects. That is the North Central SDR Warehouse Project (Vung Ang SDR Warehouse) of the investor Vietnam Gas Corporation - Joint Stock Company (PV Gas). The project has a total capital of more than 26,735 billion VND with a scale of 53 hectares of land and 426 hectares of water surface.
The project to invest in building workshops for lease to produce electric car auxiliary industries is invested by Vinhomes Ha Tinh Industrial Park Investment Joint Stock Company (under Vingroup). The project has a total estimated investment of more than 21,400 billion VND, with a scale of more than 132 hectares.
At the end of December 2025, Vingroup Group organized the launching ceremony of the Vinmetal Ha Tinh Steel Production Plant Project, with a total investment of nearly 80,000 billion VND, with a scale of more than 461 hectares in Vung Ang Economic Zone.
According to the Ha Tinh Provincial Economic Zone Management Board, Vung Ang EZ currently has 156 projects, including 56 foreign-invested projects with a total registered capital of more than 16 billion USD and 100 domestic investment projects with a registered capital of 85,054 billion VND.
Business operations in Vung Ang Economic Zone are increasingly stable, going deeper, contributing more than 25% of GRDP growth, over 95% of import and export turnover, about 60% of budget revenue and creating jobs for more than 20,000 workers.
Ha Tinh province is oriented to expand Vung Ang Economic Zone with a total area of about 67,998 ha (currently 22,781 ha), including both land and water surface.
The expansion aims to establish a Free Trade Zone, linking the deep-water port of Vung Ang - Son Duong with the global supply chain, creating a breakthrough in green and sustainable growth, making a great contribution to GRDP and budget revenue.
