On July 5th, 2013, Department of Science & Technology held a Scientific Council to approve the subject “History of managing and deploying sea and island of Ba Ria – Vung Tau in the 20th century” headed by Dr. Phạm Ngọc Trâm (Hochiminh University of Society Science & Human Culture).

The coastal length of Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province is 305 km, with big potential of the Country on development of oil & gas, seafood, tourism, maritime transportation etc. Until now, maritime economy of Ba Ria – Vung Tau has remarkable changes, the Ba Ria – Vung Tau has focused restructuring sea profession, speeding up converting the vocation in accordance with big shipbuilding, engineering, promoting equipment and applying new technology to expand deployment; strong economic and social development of the coast, island etc.