Hue businesses are heavily affected by floods

HNN.VN - After the historic floods at the end of October, many businesses, production facilities and business households in Hue City were seriously affected. Deep and prolonged flooding damaged machinery, equipment, goods and disrupted business operations. Despite the great damage, units are making efforts to quickly stabilize production and maintain jobs for workers.

Cleaning and restoring Gia Di Rice Paper facility after the flood

At Linh Vy Food Service Trading Company Limited, Ms. Tran Thi Anh Vy, Director of the company, said that the company's cold storage area was deeply flooded, about 17-18 tons of frozen goods had to be destroyed. "We are transporting the remaining goods to a temporary cold storage in Thuan An for preservation. This is the heaviest damage since our establishment in 2018," Ms. Vy shared.

Similarly, the Gia Di Banh Press brand of Tukcha Banh Press Gia Di Co., Ltd. was also greatly affected when both facilities on Nguyen Hue and Phung Chi Kien streets were flooded from 0.7 to more than 1 meter. According to founder Le Thi Di, the entire refrigeration system, computers and food processing equipment were damaged, with estimated damage of about 200-300 million VND. "We are urgently cleaning up, replacing equipment, and plan to reopen in the next few days," said Ms. Di.

Not only the manufacturing sector, technology units were also affected. Mr. Le Van Viet, Director of iPOS.vn Joint Stock Company - Hue Branch, said that many customers using iPOS sales software had their equipment flooded and damaged. "We have sent a technical team to support, lend spare machines, and sell replacement equipment at original prices so that customers can resume operations soon," Mr. Viet informed.

iPOS.vn Hue staff clean up the company office to prepare for resumption of operations after the flood.

Despite suffering many losses, Hue's business community still shows a proactive and resilient spirit in the face of natural disasters - both overcoming the consequences and maintaining production.

According to Ms. Dang Thi Duong, President of the Hue City Women Entrepreneurs Association, almost all of the Association’s members were affected by the floods. “In some places, the water was more than 2 meters deep, and goods and equipment were completely damaged. Many women had to move goods at night, but still could not react in time,” Ms. Duong said. The Association is currently summarizing the damage and proposing credit, tax and insurance support to help businesses recover operations soon.

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