Nationwide production resumes after Tet holiday

New orders

After a week-long holiday over Tet, the Lunar New Year holiday marked in January, nearly all employees of the Vina T&T Group Joint Stock Company have returned to work with renewed energy.

Nguyen Dinh Tung, General Director of the Vina T&T Import-Export Trading Service Co., Ltd, said the company aims to grow by 30-40 percent this year compared to 2022. To that end, its Mekong Delta plants in Ben Tre and Tien Giang provinces resumed near-normal operations on the second day of the Lunar New Year. “The orders in early 2023 are rich for both export and domestic market. Export orders to markets such as China and the US are quite regular, while our fruit products also sell well at home,” Tung said.

Enterprises resume production cycle after start of Lunar New Year

At the Dong Nai Rubber Corporation, workers in some farms returned to exploit rubber latex on the fourth day of the holiday. In 2022, the company’s output reached more than 29.2 thousand tonnes, 18 percent higher than the plan.

More than 90 percent of workers at the Dai Dung Group’s factory in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed production in order to fulfill export orders to the US, Europe and Japan for the first and second quarters. Given the positive outlook for these export markets, the company expects to exceed 20 percent growth in 2023. "We focus on the Japanese, the US, and European markets and have already secured contracts from these customers,” a company representative said.

Meanwhile, the Trung An High-Tech Agriculture JSC in Can Tho Province had to operate throughout the Tet holiday because the company committed to deliver more than 30,000 tonnes of rice to Malaysia, Singapore, and the Republic of Korea in the first quarter of 2023.

Pham Thai Binh, General Director of Trung An High-Tech Agriculture JSC (third from left), introduces rice products to senior Can Tho City officials

Major targets

In order to get the year off to a productive start, the Garment 10 Corporation (Garment 10) organized several entertainment programs for its officials and employees. Than Duc Viet, General Director of Garment 10, said the corporation will seek new customers and markets, especially the Chinese market given the country’s very large and potential domestic demand.

Many units of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin) also resumed production and business activities on the first working day after the holiday. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Vinacomin’s plant loaded the first 41,000 tonnes of coal onto the Viet Thuan Star ship for transport to domestic markets. By the end of January, Vinacomin had produced 2.6 million tonnes of raw coal and sold 3.8 million tonnes.

The Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel Joint Stock Corporation has set a target of producing and selling over 780,000 tonnes of rolled steel, total revenue of VND15.826 trillion and employment and stable income for all its staff.

Nguyen Van Lam, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said 95 percent of workers at 1,361 enterprises returned to work on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as planned.