After nearly a month of fishing out at sea, hundreds of vessels have come ashore, bringing back hundreds of tonnes of tuna for export and domestic use. Dozens of trawlers anchored at Ward 6 and Dong Tac fishing ports, Tuy Hoa City, on January 23-24, the first two days of the lunar New Year, carrying [...]
Domestic shrimp exporters will boost their shipments to Asian markets this year as seafood consumption demand is forecast to surge in the region. The General Secretary of the Vietnam Seafood Exporters and Producers, Truong Dinh Hoe said China, Japan and the Republic of Korea will be promising markets for Vietnamese shrimp exports this year, with [...]
Vietnam was estimated to have reaped a total of $2.396 billion from shrimp exports in 2011, up 13.7% from 2010, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said on its website on Jan 16th, 2012. Vietnam exported shrimps to 91 countries in the year. Of which, Japan market took the highest shares with $0.6 [...]
Vietnamese seafood industry, heavily dependent on fish farming, says it is confident of hitting its government’s export target of US $6.5 billion this year. Truong Dinh Hoe, general secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers, said the industry expected to earn $2.5 billion from shrimp exports alone because global demand, especially in [...]
In 2011, Vietnam’s top ten largest seafood exporters accounted for over 20% of the country’s total export turnover. Of which, six companies have strength in shrimp export and the remaining four firms specialize in tra catfish export, according to Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (Vasep). Minh Phu Seafood Group Joint Stock Co (coded [...]
Big institutions in the world all have predicted that the seafood demand would be very high in 2012, while the supply would be short. Therefore, Vietnam’s plan to increase the seafood revenue to 6.5 billion dollars from 6 billion in 2011 is within reach. Demand up, supply short According to FAO, seafood is the kind [...]
Big institutions in the world all have predicted that the seafood demand would be very high in 2012, while the supply would be short. Therefore, Vietnam’s plan to increase the seafood revenue to 6.5 billion dollars from 6 billion in 2011 is within reach. Demand up, supply short According to FAO, seafood is the kind [...]
Vietnam’s seafood sector will run short of capital and material resources and face challenges of meeting food hygiene and safety requirements, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). VASEP predicts that demand for Vietnamese shrimp in the European market will not be high due to fluctuations in this market while tra [...]
Many local seafood exporters are on the brink of halting operation, or even bankruptcy, as their shrimp exports to Japan have recently been found to contain excessive levels of the antibiotic enrofloxacin. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnamese shrimps bound for Japan last year were 56 times detected to be tainted [...]
At the meeting to summarize the operations in 2011 and carry out plans for 2012, Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development set a target to gain an export turnover of $6.5 billion from seafood products in 2012, up 6.5% compared to 2011’s actualized figure. Of which, tra catfish export would earn about $1.8-2 billion, [...]
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