A new industrial and logistics park in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province has seen the start of initial groundwork, and on 13 December, local authorities, players and stakeholders gathered for the traditional laying of the first stone ceremony.
Hosting the ceremony was IDEC Group Asia Vietnam, whose flagship project is the Horizon Park, a proposed 70,000 square metres of ready-for-business buildings developed on a 12-hectare site.
Bac Ninh, a farming province situated 35 kilometres from capital Hanoi, has grown over the last 2 decades to become an ideal location for industrial and logistics businesses, boasting one of the highest economic growth rates in the country. IDEC said the new project stands out from the locally available offering.
“For more than twenty years we have been putting our unique expertise to good use in France with the development of business and logistics parks, vectors of jobs, regional attractivity and responsible commitment,” explained Patrice Lafargue, president and founder of GROUPE IDEC.
“We are integrating the same approach, the same degree of exactingness as in France, with a little extra bit of the French soul and spirit that was missing from the logistics and industrial offering in Vietnam.”
The future facility will offer storage and transit solutions in the immediate vicinity of several large-scale industrial sites with connections to Noi Bai international airport via the main highways.
IDEC added that the Horizon Park has been imagined around multi-temperature platforms and industrial buildings that will eventually propose 70,000 sqm of ready-for-business buildings, for sale or for rent.
In detail, 26 storage units of about 2,500 sqm each will benefit from a European-equivalent category A logistics standard, with a floor load of 5 tonnes per sqm, free heights of nearly 11 metres and all the equipment required for their functioning (levellers, sectional doors, fire detection systems, etc.)
“This turnkey offer, inspired by the support that GROUPE IDEC proposes to its customers in France is quite disruptive in Vietnam. We have already had several very advanced discussions with future tenants of one or more storage units. This illustrates the quality of the product that we are developing here in Bac Ninh,” explained Lafargue.
In addition, the future logistics park will meet the strictest requirements and highest levels of the local standards and will aim for Leed Gold certification. This includes a photovoltaic installation that will cover part of the various warehouses with the energy produced directly re-injected into the park and its buildings.
