Can Tho lures more than $76m in investment capital

The industrial zones in the southern Can Tho City have so far this year attracted 10 projects of foreign and domestic enterprises with a total investment capital of US$76 million, bringing the number of projects up to 198 with a combined registered capital of $1.6 billion.

The new projects cover sectors as diverse as seafood, footwear, fertiliser, chemicals, steel and auto assembling.

Companies operating in the IZs generated a total revenue of about $380 million in the first four months of this year, up 72 per cent from the same period last year. The firms earned $133.4 million of that amount from exports, for a year-on-year increase of 63 per cent.

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