Saturday, 13th July 2013: The long awaited ground breaking ceremony took place for SEC Base in Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone, Vungtau. It was a beautiful sunny day and according to Vietnamese customs 5 Buddhist Monks were invited all the way from Thailand and Myanmar to give this project their blessing.

After an inspiring speech from Mrs. Duong Huong Giang the following people had the honour to ceremoniously break the first ground; (from left to right) Mr. Nguyen Hieu Nghia, vice Director TVT, Project Manager SEC, Mrs. Duong Thuy Chi, Director Lien Thanh; Mrs. Duong Huong Giang, director SEC; Mr. Walter Leijen, Business development manager SEC.

To mark this special occasion two tree were planted on both sides of the future entrance gate to the yard under the supervision of the Monks.

The new SEC base will offer 1600 m2 of office space and 1800 m2 covered workshop with 128 metric tons total lifting capacity and a heavy duty floor. The main entrance door to the workshop will be a whopping 11 meters wide and 10 meters high in order to allow fully assembled dredging equipment to be brought in.
Everything going to plan the facility will be commissioned middle of 2014.

Right after the ceremony was finished it started to rain, which can only be interpreted as a good omen. An update on the construction process will follow later this year.