Marubeni, China’s Dongfang Win Vietnam Power Plant Deal

Jul. 20–TOKYO — Trading house Marubeni Corp. and China’s Dongfang Electric Corp. have won a 50 billion yen contract to build a coal-fired power plant for the state-run Electricity of Vietnam, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Wednesday.

The report said it is the first power plant contract won by a Sino-Japanese alliance for a project outside their countries.

The contract covers the design and construction of two 300,000-kilowatt generators in Hai Phong, as well as the supply of equipment and facilities for the power plant, one of Vietnam’s largest coal-fired power plants, the report said.

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