Managers and workers at industrial parks and factories in Haiphong, a coastal city of 2 million, said on Monday that they had no electricity and were trying to salvage equipment from plants where metal sheet roofing had been blown away, as more rain was expected.
“Everyone is scrambling to make sites safe and stocks dry,” said Bruno Jaspaert, head of DEEP C industrial zones, which host plants from more than 150 investors in Haiphong and the neighbouring province of Quang Ninh.
The walls of a factory in Haiphong of South Korea’s LG Electronics collapsed, according to pictures and a Reuters witness.
LG Electronics, a major maker of appliance and consumer electronics, said there were no casualties among its employees and acknowledged damage at its production site noting a warehouse with refrigerators and washing machines had been flooded.
“Lots of damages,” said Hong Sun, the chairman of the South Korean business association in Vietnam when asked about the typhoon’s impact on Korean factories in coastal areas.
