Some northern border gates have been suspended due to Covid-19 outbreak causing difficulties for importing production materials from China.

Otherwise, a number of material suppliers in China have temporarily closed, thus supply shortage is predictable.

Workers of Bac Giang Garment Corporation complete the products in early 2020.

According to the survey, enterprises in the province facing the risk of material shortage due to indirect impact of covid-19 outbreak are mainly in the sectors of garment, electronic component production and animal feed processing.

Bac Giang Garment Corporation (BGG) in Dinh Ke ward, Bac Giang city has to import 70 percent of the materials from China such as cloth, zips and buttons.

According to Nguyen Huu Phai, the company’s CEO, the company plans to produce 3.5 million clothes for export to America and some European countries.

Due to Covid-19 outbreak, the company could not import materials for nearly 1 month. Currently, the company can only use the available materials in their stock by the end of February. Other garment companies in the province are facing the same circumstances.

Not only the garment companies, many Chinese direct investment companies in the industrial parks and clusters are also slowing down production because they have not been able to import materials.

According to representative of KCD Company Limited (a Chinese enterprise) in Song Khe - Noi Hoang industrial park producing electronic accessories like mobile phone connector, charger and headphone, 100 percent of their materials are imported from the corporation in China. Due to Covid-19, they could not import materials for production once per month as before.

The province is home to 141 Chinese investment projects. These projects also got into the same situation.

Facing this circumstance, many enterprises are seeking for alternative material sources to maintain their operation in coming time. Particularly, BBG is contacting the Chinese partners after they resume operation to promptly finalize the import procedures by sea.

However, it will take longer to transport by sea than by land. It takes 21 days for a shipment from China to Vietnam including 7 days by sea and 14 days for quarantine as regulated.

Ha Phong Export Garment Joint Stock Company maintains their production based on available materials while awaiting full materials to complete the products. In addition, the company made plans to seek domestic suppliers and import temporary materials from Republic of Korea, India, Bangladesh and Brazil with higher prices to make up for the material shortage.

In line with the enterprises’ efforts to stabilise production, the State Bank, Bac Giang branch urged the credit organizations in the province to balance the financial resources to meet the capital demand for production and business.

The credit organizations need to proactively grasp the business performance and evaluate impacts of Covid-19 outbreak on their customers especially the sectors of tourism, agriculture and export-import to timely take measures to assist and remove obstacles for the customers.

Bac Giang city mobilizes forces to join in nCoV epidemic prevention

(BGO) – Bac Giang city is the capital of ​​Bac Giang province that houses many agencies, units and schools, and is a crowded place. Amid the urgent need of the prevention and control of an acute respiratory disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus called nCoV, the city is urgently implementing measures with a determination to prevent the disease.

Bac Giang gives top priority for nCoV prevention and control

(BGO) - Chairman of the People’s Committee of Bac Giang province Duong Van Thai, Head of the Steering Committee for prevention against the acute respiratory epidemic caused by the novel coronavirus (the Steering Committee) chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee and the assisting team on 5 February.

Bac Giang’s export and import yet to be impacted by nCoV epidemic

(BGO) – In the face of nCoV complex situation, the Customs Office controlling the industrial parks in Bac Giang province and the Department of Industry and Trade have strictly supervised the situation to give timely instruction to the enterprises.

Bac Giang DoFA provides Chinese quick learning handbooks in combating Covid-19

(BGO)- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DoFA) in Bac Giang province has published 60 Chinese quick learning handbooks related to Covid-19 prevention for the officers and soldiers on missions in the foreigners’ isolated area. 

Bac Giang focuses on controlling and monitoring health condition of people coming from Covid-19 affected area

(BGO) – As of February 12, Bac Giang province has 15 Covid-19 suspected cases (new strain of coronavirus as called by the World Health Organization since February 12), in which 14 people tested negative to the virus and 1 case is waiting for the test result who is monitored at the provincial General Hospital with stable condition.

Hai Minh