Fisheries processors struggling with hardships

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) on June 14 organised a conference to report export situation as well as the serious shortage of materials.

Truong Dinh Hoe, general Secretary of VASEP, reported that the shrimp export so gar has accounted for 35.5 percent of the country’s total seafood export turnover. Mekong Delta now has 213,500 hectares of shrimp raising area, expected to reach the output of 213,000 tonnes – the great supply for export. But, due to epidemic, 52,270 ha of shrimp raising area here was damaged seriously for which the processors are facing shortage of materials for export.

Some of enterprises are on danger to shut down factories. More than a half of number of shrimp processing plants is operating in standstill. They have proposed the state to allow import of materials with incentive tariffs to maintain production.

Moreover, the domestic fisheries processors are competing fiercely with Chinese traders in purchasing seafood materials, said Nguyen Thi Thu Sac, Chair of VASEP. Local firms have to push material prices while export price is unchanged, leading to a reduction in profits of Vietnamese processors.

Since the start of this year, up to 147 seafood processors and exporters gave up operation, affecting to export market. In the first half of 2011, the sector regulator is trying to expand more 15 export markets but we also lost the same number of old markets. First of all, according to Sac, Indonesia has forbidden export of material fisheries so Vietnam should stabilise the domestic material source. – Vietbiz24

Tags: Vietnam Seafood, Vietnam seafood sector

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