Today, I visited Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (known as VSIP). The project was started in 1994 by the Prime Ministers of Singapore and Vietnam in an effort to boost the economies of the two countries. Since then, Singapore and Vietnam have been working together to make the industrial park project as successful as possible. This…
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From Model Towns to LASIK
Earlier today, we toured VSIP, a state-owned company that builds industrial parks and ready built factories for a wide variety of industries. The first thing that shocked me was exactly this, how many different types of companies that VSIP caters to. When I asked if they specialized in any one type, they said no. This…
Parks and Recreation
We had our final company visits today, and it was bittersweet! I won’t miss the 6 AM wake ups, but also the company visits were so interesting and I really enjoyed listening to all the presentations. We visited two companies today. Our first visit was Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park. It’s a joint partnership between the…
Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park
Today we visited the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park. The business allows companies to order specific factory buildings which are built to perfection. The Industrial Park also has houses, apartments, 2 university’s, restaurants, a shopping mall, and much more. At the presentation given by VSIP, I learned that the original company began with the Prime Minister…
Day 11: Office Parks and Roman Numerals
To start, I’d like to say that this is my final blog post of the trip. Writing these each day has been a nice way to reflect on my experiences, and I’m certain that some day I’ll look back on them and remember Vietnam. We met at 8AM today to go to Vietnam Singapore Industrial…
Day 11: No Ordinary Kind of Park
With our last day of site visits, we wrapped up our educational aspect of this trip about development in Vietnam by touring a park—not any old park with benches and swings, but an Industrial Park. The first company we visited in the morning was Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), a state owned company including 30…
Day 11
Today we went on the last of our site visits here in Vietnam, and so this will be my final blog post. In the morning, we visited the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), which is located about an hour away from Ho Chi Minh City. VSIP was developed in the 1990s in cooperation between the…
Day 11: Industrial parks and manufacturing
Today we visited two different companies: Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) and II-IV, known as Two-Six. The first company, VSIP, was very interesting to learn about. It is a state-owned company, but the government actually does not have very much say in the running and management of the company. It is an industrial park development…
Vietnaaam! Ho Chi Miinhhh!
Rather than have classes today, we visited several significant landmarks around Saigon. First, we headed to the Cat Lai Terminal (the biggest terminal in the area) in order to see how shipping is done in Vietnam. It was shocking to see the sheer quantity of goods being transported on a daily basis and how multiple interconnecting systems…
Day 11: VIP’s in VSIP
The penultimate day of our journey was spent on two different site visits, our last of the trip. First, we traveled to the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park, or VSIP for short, located in Binh Duong. After hitting some heavy traffic on the bus ride there, we were able to learn a lot about the company…
Day 11: Over and Out
I regret to inform you, Brian and Moriah as well as the rest of my 2 or 3 other blog followers (lol), that today is my last blog post of Plus 3 Vietnam 2017. So let’s get to it, today was a double site tour day in place of all classes at UEF. We began…
Day 12: VSIP and II-VI
Dear readers, We started off our morning at VSIP (Vietnam Singapore Industrial Parks). Here we learned about a rapidly growing system of industrial parks throughout Vietnam. The parks have 690 tenant companies that combine for $32 billion US dollars in export value. The company is successful mostly in the south near Saigon, since this is…
Ports and Palaces: Day 10
This morning we visited Cat Lai Terminal, an international container terminal operator and logistics provider. The company has three core businesses, including port operations with trucks, logistic services, and sea transports.Their headquarters are in Ho Chi Minh City and they have over 30 branches and subsidiaries as they are spread throughout Vietnam. They also have 17…
Reunited and it Feels So Good
Our day today began with a visit with the largest port terminal in Vietnam, called the Cat Lai Terminal which is run by the Saigon New Port Corporation. The terminal receives ships with shipping crates, unloads the ships, stores the shipping crates depending on the specific temperature it needs to be kept at, and will…
Day 11: Tan Cang, Reunification Palace and Some Sweet Clothes
Dear Readers, In the morning we went to Tan Cang, Cat Lai Terminal. There, we got a little talk about what they did and some of the logistical difficulties exist in our modern time. For example, only company mother ships are able to ship internationally. Also, Vietnam can’t ship directly to the United States. They…
May 17th – Independence Palace
This morning, we went straight to the Cat Lai Terminal which is owned by Saigon Newport Corporation. The Cat Lai Terminal is one of the largest ports in Vietnam. Cat Lai is located in Ho Chi Minh. This location is ideal because it is so close to the Mekong Delta, China, many other asain countries,…
Palaces and Ports
Hello Everybody, Today we got to do some fun stuff, including visiting the Cat Lai terminal and the independence palace- overall a very exciting day! The Cat Lai terminal is one of the largest ports in Vietnam, and certainly looked like it. There were seemingly endless rows of shipping containers, with cranes and other machinery…
Day 10 – Pizzas and Palaces
In the morning we visited one of the largest and most modern container ports in Vietnam, Cat Lai Terminal from Saigon Newport Corporation. We toured their terminal and learned about all of the services offered, such as transporting and storage of the cargo. They use special software to track the location of each container for…
From Business To Beauty
Day 10: Today we went to the Cat Lai terminal and traveled to the Reunification Palace. The Cat Lai terminal is probably the biggest port in Vietnam. From this port, many goods are brought and shipped to various places. Many different big companies use this port, one big one being mentioned is Samsung. The terminal…
Be Back Soon , Moving into the Palace
We started the day at the Cat Lai Terminal, one of the largest ports in Vietnam from Saigon Newport Corporation. Saigon Newport Corporation has become one of the most modern and professional container terminal operators in the country. The terminal takes care of jobs like cargo handling, logistics, maritime services, salvage, pilot, real estate, office…