Gia Lai Vietnam

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GIA LAI PROVINCE, VIETNAM 2026

Vietnam’s Highlands-to-Sea Platform for Agriculture, Industry, Energy, Ports & East–West Logistics

TTTFIC GLOBAL INVESTMENT PROFILE 2026

TTTFIC INVESTMENT THESIS

HIGHLANDS + COAST + QUY NHON PORT + AGRICULTURE + PROCESSING + RENEWABLE ENERGY + INDUSTRY + CAMBODIA + LOGISTICS + SEMICONDUCTORS

Gia Lai Vietnam has undergone one of the most strategically significant territorial transformations in the country’s 2025 administrative reorganization.

The former highland province of Gia Lai and the former coastal province of Binh Dinh were merged to form the new Gia Lai Province.

The result is not simply a larger administrative territory.

It creates an entirely new investment geography extending:

FROM THE CAMBODIAN BORDER TO THE EAST SEA.

Before the merger, the former Gia Lai was fundamentally a highland economy built around:

  • agriculture;
  • coffee;
  • rubber;
  • forestry;
  • renewable energy;
  • livestock;
  • border trade;
  • inland transportation.

The former Binh Dinh contributed a fundamentally different economic system:

  • Quy Nhon;
  • seaports;
  • Nhon Hoi Economic Zone;
  • industrial parks;
  • manufacturing;
  • fisheries;
  • tourism;
  • coastal logistics;
  • Phu Cat Airport;
  • science and technology infrastructure.

The merger therefore creates something neither province possessed independently:

AN INTEGRATED HIGHLANDS–TO–SEA ECONOMIC PLATFORM.

From TTTFIC’s investment perspective, the strategic equation is:

CAMBODIA

LE THANH INTERNATIONAL BORDER GATE

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

PLEIKU

NATIONAL HIGHWAY 19

INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS

QUY NHON

SEAPORT

EAST SEA / INTERNATIONAL MARKETS.

This changes the investment logic of Gia Lai.

The province should no longer be evaluated simply as an agricultural highland province.

Nor should the former Binh Dinh coastal economy be evaluated independently.

The new Gia Lai must be understood as:

ONE PROVINCE – TWO ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES – ONE EAST–WEST INVESTMENT CORRIDOR.

Gia Lai Province Vietnam Administrative Map 2026 | TTTFIC Group
Gia Lai Province Administrative Map 2026 – 135 Commune-Level Administrative Units | TTTFIC Group

I – EXECUTIVE INVESTMENT OVERVIEW

The new Gia Lai Province was formed through the merger of:

FORMER GIA LAI PROVINCE

FORMER BINH DINH PROVINCE.

The province now covers more than:

21,500 KM²

with a population exceeding:

3.5 MILLION PEOPLE.

This makes Gia Lai one of Vietnam’s largest provinces by land area.

Its administrative center is located in:

QUY NHON.

Following commune-level restructuring, Gia Lai has:

135 COMMUNE-LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

including:

  • 110 communes
  • 25 wards.

The economic scale of the new province is also substantially larger.

In 2025, Gia Lai recorded:

  • GRDP growth of approximately 7.2%;
  • economic scale of approximately VND 270.7 trillion;
  • GRDP per capita of approximately VND 85.05 million.

The province attracted 192 investment projects during 2025, including 16 FDI projects, with total registered investment approaching VND 160 trillion.

The merger creates an unusually diversified economic base combining:

AGRICULTURE

MANUFACTURING

ENERGY

PORTS

LOGISTICS

FISHERIES

TOURISM

BORDER TRADE

TECHNOLOGY.

For international investors, this diversification is the defining feature of Gia Lai 2026.

Gia Lai Province Vietnam Natural Landscape and Waterfall | TTTFIC Group
Natural Landscape and Waterfall in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group

II – POST-MERGER ADMINISTRATIVE & STRATEGIC POSITION

The 2025 merger fundamentally changed Gia Lai’s position within Vietnam.

The former Gia Lai was landlocked.

The new Gia Lai is not.

It now possesses:

A COASTLINE

A SEAPORT SYSTEM

A MAJOR COASTAL CITY

A COASTAL ECONOMIC ZONE

INDUSTRIAL PARKS

TWO AIRPORTS

while retaining:

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS AGRICULTURE

RENEWABLE ENERGY

CAMBODIA BORDER ACCESS

LE THANH INTERNATIONAL BORDER GATE.

This is a major structural change.

The province now functions across three broad economic spaces:

WESTERN GIA LAI

Cambodia Border + Le Thanh + Agriculture + Forestry + Renewable Energy + Highland Resources

CENTRAL GIA LAI

Pleiku + Agriculture + Processing + Services + Aviation + Highland Manufacturing

EASTERN GIA LAI

Quy Nhon + Ports + Nhon Hoi + Industry + Logistics + Fisheries + Tourism + Technology

The post-merger investment equation becomes:

WESTERN RESOURCES

CENTRAL PROCESSING

EASTERN INDUSTRY & LOGISTICS

SEAPORT

GLOBAL MARKET.

This is the core strategic logic of the new Gia Lai.

III – THE POST-MERGER ECONOMIC SCALE

The combined province recorded GRDP growth of approximately:

7.2% IN 2025.

Its economic structure was approximately:

  • agriculture, forestry and fisheries: 28.84%;
  • industry and construction: 28.62%;
  • services: 38.60%;
  • product taxes less subsidies: 3.93%.

By the first six months of 2026, growth had accelerated to approximately:

8.21%.

During that period:

  • agriculture, forestry and fisheries increased 4.14%;
  • industry and construction increased 11.68%;
  • industry alone increased 11.74%;
  • services increased 8.17%.

Exports during the first six months of 2026 reached approximately:

USD 2.146 BILLION.

This reflects a significantly broader economic structure than the former Gia Lai possessed independently.

The key opportunity is now to integrate these sectors geographically.

IV – POST-MERGER SYNERGY – WHY THE MERGER MATTERS

The economic value of the merger is not simply:

GIA LAI + BINH DINH.

The more important equation is:

HIGHLANDS + COAST.

The former Gia Lai possessed:

  • agricultural land;
  • coffee;
  • rubber;
  • pepper;
  • forestry;
  • livestock;
  • renewable energy;
  • border access;
  • large inland development space.

The former Binh Dinh possessed:

  • ports;
  • industrial parks;
  • manufacturing;
  • logistics;
  • fisheries;
  • coastal tourism;
  • urban services;
  • technology infrastructure.

The new province can potentially connect these assets into integrated value chains.

For example:

COFFEE

Highland production
→ Processing
→ Packaging
→ Quy Nhon Port
→ International market.

FORESTRY

Plantation
→ Wood processing
→ Furniture manufacturing
→ Port logistics
→ Export.

AGRICULTURE

Farm
→ Standardization
→ Processing
→ Cold chain
→ Port / domestic market.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Generation
→ Industrial demand
→ Future green manufacturing opportunities.

CAMBODIA TRADE

Cambodia
→ Le Thanh
→ Pleiku
→ Highway 19
→ Quy Nhon
→ Maritime routes.

This is the real economic meaning of the merger.

V – QUY NHON – THE NEW ADMINISTRATIVE & COASTAL ECONOMIC CENTER

One of the most important consequences of the merger is the positioning of Quy Nhon as the administrative center of the new Gia Lai Province.

Quy Nhon provides the province with:

  • urban services;
  • administration;
  • universities;
  • healthcare;
  • tourism;
  • logistics;
  • industrial services;
  • technology;
  • coastal infrastructure;
  • access to the seaport system.

For investors, Quy Nhon significantly expands the service capability available to projects elsewhere in the province.

The new provincial geography therefore contains two important urban identities:

QUY NHON

Administration + Port + Industry + Services + Technology + Tourism

and

PLEIKU

Highland Services + Agriculture + Processing + Aviation + Cambodia-Facing Connectivity

Rather than competing, these two centers can become complementary nodes within the same provincial economy.

VI – QUY NHON PORT – THE MARITIME GATEWAY

The merger gives Gia Lai something the former province never possessed:

DIRECT MARITIME ACCESS.

The Quy Nhon port system provides the highlands with an established route toward international shipping.

This is strategically important for:

  • agricultural exports;
  • wood products;
  • furniture;
  • industrial materials;
  • machinery;
  • processed products;
  • containerized cargo;
  • project cargo.

The fundamental logistics equation is:

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

NATIONAL HIGHWAY 19

QUY NHON

SEAPORT

INTERNATIONAL MARKET.

For highland manufacturers, port access changes site-selection economics.

Instead of treating the coast as infrastructure located in another province, the new administrative structure places both the production hinterland and maritime gateway within one provincial investment system.

That can potentially improve:

  • infrastructure coordination;
  • planning;
  • industrial-corridor development;
  • logistics strategy;
  • investment promotion.

TTMS™ CONTROL

SAME PROVINCE ≠ AUTOMATICALLY LOW LOGISTICS COST

Distance, road conditions, congestion, port services, cargo type, vessel frequency and handling costs must still be modeled at project level.

Former Binh Dinh Province Landscape, Now Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group
Landscape of Former Binh Dinh Province, Now Part of Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group

VII – NHON HOI ECONOMIC ZONE – THE COASTAL INDUSTRIAL ENGINE

Nhon Hoi Economic Zone is one of the most important industrial-development platforms in the new Gia Lai Province.

Its strategic functions include:

  • industry;
  • urban development;
  • logistics;
  • services;
  • renewable energy;
  • tourism;
  • seaport-related development.

The zone gives the province a large-scale coastal economic platform capable of supporting projects that would not normally locate in the Central Highlands.

This creates a new division of industrial geography:

WESTERN / CENTRAL GIA LAI

Resources + Agriculture + Energy + Processing

and

EASTERN GIA LAI

Manufacturing + Industrial Parks + Logistics + Export Infrastructure.

For investors, the ability to choose between these different geographies within one province is strategically valuable.

VIII – BECAMEX – VSIP INDUSTRIAL & URBAN PLATFORM

The Becamex–VSIP industrial and urban development inside Nhon Hoi Economic Zone represents one of the province’s major modern industrial platforms.

The project combines:

  • industrial infrastructure;
  • urban development;
  • services;
  • supporting infrastructure;
  • investment attraction.

Its significance extends beyond available industrial land.

Becamex and VSIP bring experience in developing large-scale industrial ecosystems and attracting domestic and international manufacturers.

The platform can support industries including:

  • electronics;
  • electrical equipment;
  • machinery;
  • supporting industries;
  • food processing;
  • consumer goods;
  • logistics;
  • high-value manufacturing.

For the new Gia Lai, this provides an important bridge between:

HIGHLAND ECONOMIC RESOURCES

and

COASTAL FDI MANUFACTURING.

TTMS™ CONTROL

Industrial-park availability must be evaluated by actual subdivision, infrastructure completion, environmental acceptance and ready-to-handover land.

Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh Industrial Park, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group
Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh Industrial Park – Former Binh Dinh, Now Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group

IX – THE EXISTING INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEM

The former Binh Dinh brought an established industrial base into the new Gia Lai Province.

Important industrial locations include areas such as:

  • Phu Tai Industrial Park;
  • Tra Da Industrial Park;
  • Nam Pleiku Industrial Park;
  • Long My Industrial Park;
  • Nhon Hoa Industrial Park;
  • Hoa Hoi Industrial Park;
  • Becamex–VSIP Industrial Park;
  • industrial areas within Nhon Hoi Economic Zone;
  • multiple industrial clusters.

This manufacturing base supports sectors including:

  • wood processing;
  • furniture;
  • stone;
  • construction materials;
  • food processing;
  • mechanical industries;
  • packaging;
  • consumer products;
  • supporting industries.

This is strategically important because Gia Lai is not starting its industrialization from zero.

The merger combines an existing coastal manufacturing ecosystem with a highland resource and agricultural economy.

X – AGRICULTURE – THE HIGHLAND PRODUCTION ENGINE

Agriculture remains one of Gia Lai’s structural advantages.

The highland portion of the province possesses favorable conditions for:

  • coffee;
  • rubber;
  • pepper;
  • fruit;
  • sugarcane;
  • cassava;
  • livestock;
  • forestry;
  • high-value agricultural products.

The old Gia Lai profile already reflected the scale of this agricultural base, including substantial certified production areas and advanced irrigation adoption. However, those historical figures belong to the former provincial geography and should not be reused as current statistics for the merged province.

The post-merger opportunity is larger.

The strategic model becomes:

AGRICULTURE

STANDARDIZATION

PROCESSING

PACKAGING

LOGISTICS

QUY NHON PORT

GLOBAL MARKET.

The objective should not simply be to export raw commodities.

It should be to increase:

VALUE ADDED PER HECTARE.

XI – COFFEE & HIGH-VALUE AGRO-PROCESSING

Gia Lai is part of Vietnam’s major Central Highlands coffee economy.

Coffee therefore remains a significant opportunity for:

  • processing;
  • roasting;
  • extraction;
  • instant coffee;
  • specialty coffee;
  • packaging;
  • branding;
  • export logistics.

But TTTFIC sees the broader opportunity as:

AGRICULTURE → FOOD INDUSTRY.

Potential investment sectors include:

  • coffee;
  • fruit processing;
  • animal feed;
  • livestock processing;
  • starch;
  • rubber products;
  • packaged foods;
  • plant extracts;
  • biomass;
  • forestry products.

The new access to the coastal industrial and logistics system strengthens the business case for deeper processing.

Coffee Harvest in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group
Coffee Harvest in Gia Lai Province – Vietnam’s Central Highlands | TTTFIC Group

XII – FORESTRY, WOOD PROCESSING & FURNITURE

The merger also creates an interesting forestry-to-manufacturing value chain.

Highland and inland areas provide forestry resources and plantation potential.

The coastal industrial economy already contains significant wood-processing and furniture capabilities.

The integrated value chain can therefore become:

FORESTRY

WOOD PROCESSING

COMPONENTS

FURNITURE

CONTAINER LOGISTICS

QUY NHON PORT

GLOBAL MARKET.

This is a strong example of post-merger industrial synergy.

Instead of treating forestry and furniture manufacturing as separate sectors, Gia Lai can increasingly develop them as one integrated supply chain.

XIII – RENEWABLE ENERGY – FROM GENERATION TO INDUSTRIAL ADVANTAGE

The former Gia Lai developed a substantial renewable-energy sector, particularly:

  • wind power;
  • solar power;
  • hydropower.

The new province adds coastal renewable-energy potential.

This creates a much broader future energy platform incorporating potential:

  • onshore wind;
  • coastal wind;
  • offshore wind;
  • solar;
  • biomass;
  • waste-to-energy;
  • new energy;
  • green hydrogen / ammonia opportunities.

However:

ENERGY POTENTIAL ≠ AVAILABLE INDUSTRIAL POWER

and

INSTALLED GENERATION ≠ SITE-SPECIFIC ELECTRICITY CAPACITY.

TTTFIC therefore verifies:

  • grid connection;
  • substation capacity;
  • voltage;
  • reliability;
  • industrial-park allocation;
  • expansion requirements

for each investment site.

The longer-term opportunity is to connect renewable-energy development with:

GREEN INDUSTRIALIZATION.

XIV – LE THANH INTERNATIONAL BORDER GATE – THE WESTERN GATEWAY

At the opposite end of the province from Quy Nhon Port lies another strategic gateway:

LE THANH INTERNATIONAL BORDER GATE.

Le Thanh connects Gia Lai with Cambodia.

Its strategic significance increases substantially after the merger because the same province now extends from:

CAMBODIA BORDER → EAST SEA.

This creates a potential East–West economic corridor:

CAMBODIA

LE THANH

PLEIKU

HIGHWAY 19

QUY NHON

INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ROUTES.

The Le Thanh International Border Gate Economic Zone is being developed toward a broader role combining:

  • border trade;
  • logistics;
  • industry;
  • services;
  • urban functions;
  • tourism;
  • transshipment.

During the first six months of 2026, import-export turnover through Le Thanh reached approximately:

USD 223.29 MILLION.

This remains far smaller than Vietnam’s major China-facing border gates.

But its strategic value is different.

It provides Gia Lai with direct access toward:

CAMBODIA

and potentially broader mainland Southeast Asian trade routes.

XV – DIGITAL BORDER GATE & CROSS-BORDER LOGISTICS

Gia Lai is also implementing a digital border-gate model at Le Thanh.

The objective is to improve:

  • digital management;
  • transparency;
  • customs coordination;
  • information exchange;
  • logistics;
  • border monitoring.

This represents an important modernization of the western economic gateway.

TTMS™ CONTROL

DIGITAL BORDER PROGRAM ≠ FULLY AUTOMATED BORDER ECONOMY

Actual implementation, interoperability, customs procedures and commercial performance must be assessed according to operating reality.

Nevertheless, the strategic direction is clear:

BORDER GATE → DIGITAL GATEWAY → LOGISTICS → ECONOMIC ZONE.

XVI – HIGHWAY 19 – THE ECONOMIC SPINE OF THE NEW PROVINCE

Few transport corridors explain the logic of post-merger Gia Lai better than:

NATIONAL HIGHWAY 19.

The corridor connects:

QUY NHON / COAST

AN KHE

PLEIKU

LE THANH / CAMBODIA.

It is therefore not merely a road.

It is the geographic spine linking:

  • ports;
  • industrial parks;
  • agricultural regions;
  • urban centers;
  • border trade;
  • logistics.

For the new province, strengthening this East–West corridor can improve the integration of the former Gia Lai and former Binh Dinh economies.

The long-term investment equation is:

BORDER

AGRICULTURE

PROCESSING

INDUSTRY

PORT

GLOBAL MARKET.

Binh Dinh Traditional Martial Arts, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam | TTTFIC Group
Binh Dinh Martial Arts Heritage – “Con Gai Binh Dinh Mua Roi Di Quyen” | TTTFIC Group

XVII – TWO AIRPORTS – PHU CAT & PLEIKU

The merged province possesses another unusual advantage:

TWO OPERATING AIRPORTS.

These are:

PLEIKU AIRPORT

serving the Central Highlands portion of the province;

and

PHU CAT AIRPORT

serving Quy Nhon and the coastal economic area.

This creates aviation coverage for both major sides of the provincial economy.

The airports support:

  • executive travel;
  • tourism;
  • business mobility;
  • investor access;
  • regional connectivity.

Phu Cat is also being upgraded, and in 2026 the province was preparing policies to attract international non-scheduled flights.

TTMS™ CONTROL

AIRPORT ≠ INTERNATIONAL CARGO HUB

INTERNATIONAL CHARTER CAPABILITY ≠ SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

PASSENGER ACCESS ≠ INDUSTRIAL AIR-FREIGHT CAPACITY.

Air-cargo requirements must therefore be evaluated separately.

XVIII – SEMICONDUCTORS, AI & THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY ECONOMY

One of the most interesting long-term changes is Gia Lai’s ambition to develop:

  • semiconductor-related industries;
  • artificial intelligence;
  • digital industry;
  • science and technology;
  • innovation.

The provincial development direction for 2026–2030 explicitly identifies semiconductor and AI development among its future growth priorities.

This is especially relevant to the coastal Quy Nhon area, where a technology and research ecosystem has gradually been developing.

However, TTTFIC applies strict status control:

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY ≠ SEMICONDUCTOR CLUSTER

INVESTOR INTEREST ≠ INVESTMENT PROJECT

MOU ≠ APPROVED PROJECT

TRAINING PROGRAM ≠ INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION.

Gia Lai should therefore not yet be presented as an established semiconductor manufacturing center.

The more appropriate investment interpretation is:

AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION PLATFORM.

If future investment, workforce development, digital infrastructure and industrial projects materialize, this could create a new economic layer above the province’s traditional agriculture, energy and manufacturing base.

XIX – MARINE ECONOMY, FISHERIES & COASTAL INDUSTRIES

The merger adds an entirely new economic dimension to Gia Lai:

THE MARINE ECONOMY.

The coastal region supports:

  • fisheries;
  • seafood processing;
  • fishing ports;
  • maritime services;
  • coastal logistics;
  • tourism;
  • renewable-energy potential.

Ocean tuna is among the region’s notable fishery products.

This creates another value chain:

SEA

FISHERIES

COLD CHAIN

PROCESSING

PACKAGING

EXPORT.

For the former landlocked Gia Lai, this economic sector simply did not exist.

Its inclusion demonstrates how profoundly the merger has diversified the province.

XX – TOURISM – FROM HIGHLANDS TO SEA

The new Gia Lai also possesses an unusually diverse tourism geography.

The highlands provide:

  • Pleiku;
  • Bien Ho;
  • volcanic landscapes;
  • forests;
  • waterfalls;
  • indigenous culture;
  • gong culture;
  • agricultural landscapes.

The coast adds:

  • Quy Nhon;
  • beaches;
  • islands;
  • marine tourism;
  • cultural heritage;
  • historical sites.

The post-merger tourism concept therefore becomes:

HIGHLANDS + CULTURE + NATURE + COAST + SEA.

Tourism is not the primary focus of TTTFIC’s industrial investment analysis.

However, it contributes to:

  • urban services;
  • hospitality;
  • workforce quality of life;
  • aviation demand;
  • consumer markets;
  • destination branding.

XXI – KEY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

TTTFIC identifies several major opportunity groups in Gia Lai Vietnam.

1. Agro-Processing

Coffee, fruit, rubber, animal feed, livestock and high-value food processing.

2. Wood & Furniture

Integrated forestry, processing, components and export manufacturing.

3. Industrial Manufacturing

Manufacturing within established and developing industrial parks.

4. Supporting Industries

Suppliers serving coastal manufacturing and future industrial ecosystems.

5. Port & Logistics

Warehousing, distribution, container logistics and inland-to-port supply chains.

6. Renewable Energy

Wind, solar, biomass and future clean-energy systems subject to planning and grid conditions.

7. Border Logistics

Le Thanh and Cambodia-facing trade.

8. Marine Economy

Fisheries, seafood processing and maritime services.

9. Technology

Semiconductor-related activities, AI, digital infrastructure and innovation where project conditions are commercially viable.

10. Tourism & Urban Services

Highland and coastal tourism, hospitality and supporting urban services.

XXII – TTMS™ INVESTMENT CONTROL FRAMEWORK

Gia Lai’s post-merger geography requires particularly careful distinction between existing assets and future investment potential.

1. CURRENT OPERATING ASSETS

These include:

  • Quy Nhon port system;
  • Pleiku Airport;
  • Phu Cat Airport;
  • Le Thanh International Border Gate;
  • existing industrial parks;
  • operating manufacturing facilities;
  • existing renewable-energy assets;
  • agricultural production;
  • fisheries;
  • National Highway 19;
  • existing logistics infrastructure.

2. NEWLY OPERATING / RAMP-UP ASSETS

New industrial, logistics, energy and infrastructure facilities must be evaluated according to actual commissioning and utilization.

3. UNDER-CONSTRUCTION ASSETS

These include selected:

  • industrial infrastructure;
  • Becamex-related development phases;
  • transport upgrades;
  • logistics infrastructure;
  • urban-industrial infrastructure;
  • energy projects.

4. APPROVED / DEVELOPING ASSETS

These include selected:

  • industrial parks;
  • industrial clusters;
  • renewable-energy projects;
  • logistics facilities;
  • economic-zone developments;
  • technology projects.

5. STRATEGIC / FUTURE PROJECTS

Potential future catalysts include:

  • semiconductor-related investment;
  • AI and digital industry;
  • offshore and coastal renewable energy;
  • green hydrogen / ammonia;
  • expanded port infrastructure;
  • upgraded aviation;
  • East–West logistics;
  • deeper Cambodia–Vietnam trade;
  • new industrial corridors.

6. INVESTABLE PROJECT / INVESTABLE SITE

TTTFIC does not classify a project as investable simply because it appears in provincial planning.

We verify:

LAND

PLANNING

LEGAL STATUS

SITE CLEARANCE

INFRASTRUCTURE

ELECTRICITY

WATER

WASTEWATER

ENVIRONMENT

FIRE SAFETY

LABOR

PORT ACCESS

AIRPORT ACCESS

BORDER ACCESS

SUPPLY CHAIN

LOGISTICS COST

COMMERCIAL TERMS

PROJECT ELIGIBILITY

IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE.

XXIII – INVESTMENT RISKS & EXECUTION CONSIDERATIONS

The new Gia Lai has major strategic advantages, but the merger does not eliminate execution risk.

Geographic Scale

The province is extremely large.

A project in Quy Nhon has a fundamentally different logistics profile from a project near Pleiku or Le Thanh.

East–West Distance

Highlands-to-port connectivity remains dependent on road quality, travel time and freight economics.

Administrative Transition

Legacy documents may still refer to former Gia Lai or former Binh Dinh administrative structures.

Industrial Readiness

Planned industrial land is not automatically ready-to-lease industrial land.

Labor

Labor availability differs significantly between coastal urban areas, industrial corridors and remote highland locations.

Utilities

Renewable-energy abundance does not guarantee site-specific industrial power availability.

Port Economics

Being in the same province as Quy Nhon Port does not automatically make every inland project port-competitive.

Border Trade

Le Thanh provides strategic Cambodia connectivity, but current trade scale is materially smaller than Vietnam’s largest international land-border corridors.

Technology Ambition

Semiconductor and AI strategies should be evaluated against actual projects, workforce, infrastructure and investor commitments.

XXIV  WHY INVEST IN GIA LAI?

Few Vietnamese provinces combine such different economic geographies within one administrative territory.

Gia Lai now possesses:

CAMBODIA BORDER

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

LARGE AGRICULTURAL BASE

RENEWABLE ENERGY

INDUSTRIAL PARKS

QUY NHON

ECONOMIC ZONE

SEAPORT

TWO AIRPORTS

COASTLINE

TECHNOLOGY AMBITION.

The result is not simply diversification.

It creates the possibility of integrated supply chains stretching from:

FARM TO FACTORY

BORDER TO PORT

HIGHLANDS TO SEA

RESOURCE TO GLOBAL MARKET.

XXV – TTTFIC INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE

The 2025 merger fundamentally changes how investors should think about Gia Lai.

Before the merger, the investment question was often:

“HOW CAN A HIGHLAND PROJECT REACH THE PORT?”

Now the more strategic question becomes:

“HOW CAN THE PROVINCE BUILD ONE INTEGRATED HIGHLANDS-TO-SEA VALUE CHAIN?”

TTTFIC sees six major investment nodes.

NODE I – QUY NHON

Administration + Port + Services + Technology + Tourism

NODE II – NHON HOI / BECAMEX–VSIP

Industry + FDI + Manufacturing + Logistics + Urban Development

NODE III – PLEIKU

Highland Services + Agriculture + Processing + Aviation

NODE IV – HIGHWAY 19 CORRIDOR

Industry + Logistics + East–West Connectivity

NODE V – LE THANH

Cambodia + Border Trade + Logistics + Economic Zone

NODE VI – HIGHLAND PRODUCTION BELT

Coffee + Agriculture + Forestry + Livestock + Renewable Energy

The investment system connecting them is:

CAMBODIA

LE THANH

HIGHLANDS

PLEIKU

PROCESSING

HIGHWAY 19

INDUSTRIAL PARKS

QUY NHON

PORT

GLOBAL MARKET.

This is the defining investment geography of post-merger Gia Lai.

The province should not attempt to become only another coastal manufacturing center.

Nor should it remain primarily an agricultural highland economy.

Its competitive advantage lies in combining both.

HIGHLANDS + COAST.

That is the strategic asset created by the merger.

XXVI – TTTFIC GROUP – COMPREHENSIVE INVESTOR SUPPORT IN GIA LAI

FROM INVESTMENT IDEA TO OPERATION

TTTFIC Group | Vietnam Industrial Investment & Business Advisory

Gia Lai’s scale makes site selection particularly complex.

A project could potentially locate:

  • near Quy Nhon Port;
  • inside Nhon Hoi Economic Zone;
  • at Becamex–VSIP;
  • within an established industrial park;
  • along the Highway 19 corridor;
  • near Pleiku;
  • close to agricultural raw materials;
  • near renewable-energy assets;
  • toward Le Thanh and Cambodia.

These locations cannot be compared on land price alone.

TTTFIC evaluates the complete project equation.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

LOCATION STRATEGY

SUPPLY-CHAIN ANALYSIS

INDUSTRIAL / SITE SCREENING

LOGISTICS MODEL

TECHNICAL & LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE

COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATION

IRC / ERC & REGULATORY COORDINATION

DESIGN & BUILD / PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

OPERATION.

INVESTMENT INTELLIGENCE

TTTFIC evaluates:

  • provincial planning;
  • industrial geography;
  • economic zones;
  • industrial parks;
  • logistics;
  • ports;
  • airports;
  • border gates;
  • labor;
  • utilities;
  • infrastructure;
  • investment pipeline.

SITE SELECTION

We compare locations according to the investor’s actual operating model.

INDUSTRIAL LAND SEARCH

TTTFIC can identify and compare industrial land throughout Gia Lai and benchmark alternatives across Industrial Parks in Vietnam.

FACTORY & WAREHOUSE SEARCH

We support requirements for:

  • ready-built factories;
  • existing factories;
  • warehouses;
  • logistics facilities;
  • expansion sites.

BUILT-TO-SUIT

Where existing supply is unsuitable, TTTFIC can coordinate built-to-suit industrial solutions.

FDI & LEGAL COORDINATION

TTTFIC supports coordination related to:

  • IRC;
  • ERC;
  • investment procedures;
  • land;
  • construction;
  • environmental requirements;
  • fire prevention and firefighting;
  • project implementation.

DUE DILIGENCE

TTTFIC can coordinate verification of:

  • legal status;
  • planning;
  • land;
  • infrastructure;
  • environmental conditions;
  • factory legality;
  • utilities;
  • commercial obligations.

LOGISTICS ANALYSIS

For Gia Lai, this is particularly important.

TTTFIC evaluates:

  • port distance;
  • Highway 19;
  • airport access;
  • Cambodia connectivity;
  • container routes;
  • supplier routes;
  • customer geography;
  • total logistics cost.

ENERGY & UTILITIES

TTTFIC verifies actual site-level capacity rather than relying on province-wide energy statistics.

LABOR ANALYSIS

We evaluate:

  • recruitment radius;
  • labor availability;
  • skills;
  • wage environment;
  • competing employers;
  • worker transport;
  • housing.

COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATION

TTTFIC can support negotiations for:

  • industrial land;
  • factory rent;
  • infrastructure fees;
  • payment schedules;
  • incentives;
  • handover conditions;
  • construction obligations.

DESIGN & BUILD COORDINATION

TTTFIC can coordinate:

  • industrial planning;
  • factory design;
  • contractor sourcing;
  • construction;
  • utilities;
  • regulatory implementation;
  • commissioning support.

POST-INVESTMENT SUPPORT

We can continue supporting investors with:

  • expansion;
  • additional sites;
  • suppliers;
  • logistics;
  • regulatory coordination;
  • industrial-property requirements.

TTTFIC does not simply send investors a list of industrial parks.

WE BUILD THE INVESTMENT CASE FROM THE PROJECT BACKWARD.

Our objective is:

HELP THE INVESTOR BUILD A VIABLE INDUSTRIAL OPERATION IN VIETNAM.

XXVII – TTTFIC INVESTMENT CONCLUSION

The new Gia Lai Province represents one of the clearest examples of how Vietnam’s 2025 administrative reorganization can change investment geography.

The merger created more than a larger province.

It connected:

CAMBODIA

with

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

with

INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS

with

QUY NHON

with

THE EAST SEA.

The former Gia Lai contributed:

  • agriculture;
  • renewable energy;
  • highland resources;
  • border access;
  • land;
  • production capacity.

The former Binh Dinh contributed:

  • ports;
  • industrial parks;
  • manufacturing;
  • coastal logistics;
  • fisheries;
  • urban services;
  • tourism;
  • technology infrastructure.

Together, they create the possibility of a new economic model:

RESOURCE

PROCESSING

MANUFACTURING

LOGISTICS

PORT

GLOBAL MARKET.

The strategic opportunity is therefore not simply to develop more industrial parks.

It is to build:

AN INTEGRATED HIGHLANDS-TO-SEA ECONOMY.

If Gia Lai successfully integrates its agricultural base, renewable energy, industrial infrastructure, East–West transport corridors, Cambodia gateway and Quy Nhon maritime system, it could become one of Central Vietnam’s most diversified industrial and logistics platforms.

For investors, the central question is no longer simply:

“GIA LAI OR BINH DINH?”

That geographic distinction belongs to the pre-merger investment map.

The more important question in 2026 is:

“WHERE WITHIN THE NEW GIA LAI DOES MY SUPPLY CHAIN CREATE THE STRONGEST COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE?”

That is the question TTTFIC Group is designed to help investors answer.

TTTFIC VIETNAM INVESTMENT INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM 2026

34 Provinces & Cities. One Updated Investment Intelligence Platform.

TTTFIC Group | Vietnam Industrial Investment & Business Advisory

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Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh Industrial Park

Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh Industrial Park

  • Investor: Investment And Industrial Development Corporation
  • Price: 25 USD/m2
  • Area: 1000 Ha
Hoa Hoi Industrial Park

Hoa Hoi Industrial Park

  • Investor: Phucloc Industrial Park Investment Development Corporation
  • Price: 25 USD/m2
  • Area: 266.18 Ha
Nhon Hoi Industrial Park - Zone A

Nhon Hoi Industrial Park - Zone A

  • Investor: Saigon - Nhonhoi Industrial Park Corporation
  • Price: 30 USD/m2
  • Area: 394,1
Nhon Hoa Industrial Park

Nhon Hoa Industrial Park

  • Investor: Limited Company Of Infratructure Investment Nhonhoa Industrial Zone
  • Price: 20 USD/m2
  • Area: 314.37
Phu Tai Industrial Park

Phu Tai Industrial Park

  • Investor: GIA LAI INVETSTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION JOINT STOCK COMPANY
  • Price: 30 USD/m2
  • Area: 345.8 Ha
Long My Industrial Park

Long My Industrial Park

  • Investor: Gia Lai Invetstment And Construction Joint Stock Company
  • Price: 20 USD/m2
  • Area: 117.67
Tra Da Industrial Park - Gia Lai

Tra Da Industrial Park - Gia Lai

  • Investor: GIA LAI PROVINCE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC ZONE
  • Price: 50 USD/m2
  • Area: 213 Ha
Le Thanh Border Gate Economic Zone

Le Thanh Border Gate Economic Zone

  • Investor: Management board of Le Thanh international border gate economic zone
  • Price: 30 USD/m2
  • Area: 415.515 Ha
Nam PleiKu Industrial Park

Nam PleiKu Industrial Park

  • Investor: Chu Se Rubber Co., Ltd
  • Price: 39 USD/m2
  • Area: 191,55
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