(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The Netherlands held as the 8th largest shrimp importer in the world, accounting for nearly 3% of the total shrimp import value of the world. Every year, the Netherlands imports about US$600 million of shrimp from major shrimp suppliers in the world such as Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Ecuador and some countries such as Belgium, Germany, the UK and Denmark. The Netherlands imported shrimp not only for domestic consumption but also for processing and re-exporting to other countries in the EU. In recent years, shrimp imports into the Netherlands were on the upward trend.

Cafatex Corporation is a large-scale company about production and exporting seafood from Vietnam. Cafatex have had 20 year-experiences in seafood business (since 1992). We are a big exporter in production with biggest turnover of Vietnam from 1997 to 2000 (continuously in 4 years), the highest turnover reaches 100 millions USD per year.

Quoc Viet Co., Ltd is one of the largest shrimp exporters in Vietnam, established in 1998 and have 20 years nearly of experience in trading, producing and exporting of shrimp. Our products are very diversified. Next to the traditional Black tiger and Vannamei shrimp products, we also produce other value added items such as ring shrimp, breaded shrimp, marinate shrimp, etc…

Vietnam is our homeland, a country of beauty, diversity, and resilience, with a strong and abundant natural environment, and a culture of caring and sharing good fortune with others. Minh Phu Seafood Corporation is driven by this tradition.

Au Vung Seafood has been established and come for production since year 2005. The office and factories are located in Gia Rai town, Bac Lieu province, Viet Nam where is considered as center of shrimp farming. Since our both factories’ locations are not only among shrimp farming areas but also convenient for cross transporting between land- way and river- way, so materials shrimp gathering and distributing to the factories are much favorable.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The UK stayed as the third largest shrimp importer in the EU, behind Spain and France. The UK mainly imports shrimp for domestic consumption. In the past three years, the UK has been one of potential markets of many Vietnamese shrimp exporters.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In April 2018, Vietnam’s shrimp exports hit US$275.2 million, down 0.4% compared with April 2017. However, thanks to the good growth in the first three months of the year, total shrimp exports as of Apr 2018 increased by nearly 14% year on year. The growth rate of shrimp export in the first 4 months of 2007 slowed down compared to the previous month due to a fall in the domestic and world shrimp prices in the context of a rise in the world shrimp supply.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s shrimp exports from 1998 to 2017 achieved the impressive growth of 752% from US$453 million in 1998 to nearly US$4 billion in 2017 (up 8.5 times). In the 20 years, despite facing many challenges, the shrimp industry still stands up to become the key export sector, bringing the highest turnover among export seafood products, contributing to the reputation of Vietnam's aquatic products on the international market.

Farmers in coastal Tra Vinh have planted more than 4,000ha of mangrove forests to breed shrimp and other aquatic species, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Favorable factors in the first months of the year such as the weather, high yield, high demand and stable shrimp prices facilitated Vietnam’s shrimp production and exports. Vietnam’s shrimp exports in March 2018 reached US$302.4 million, up 25.8% from March 2017; the figure in the first quarter 2018 amounted to US$742.9 million, up 20.2% over for the same period of 2017.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The EU remained as the largest importer of Vietnamese shrimp, accounting for 18.2% of Vietnam’s total shrimp exports. Shrimp exports to this market in the first three months of this year reached US$134.9 million, up 13.5% over the same period last year. Exports to the three main markets (the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium) recorded the double digit growth. Exports to the Netherlands and Germany increased by 76.3% and 55.3%, respectively, while exports to Belgium grew by 18.9%.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) EU was the largest export market of Vietnamese shrimp in the first quarter of this year.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Favorable factors in the first months of the year such as the weather, high yield, high demand and stable shrimp prices facilitated Vietnam’s shrimp production and exports. Vietnam’s shrimp exports in the first two months of 2018 touched US$440.5 million, up 16.5% over the same period in 2017.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In 2017, the U.S market dropped to the 4th rank in top leading shrimp buyers of Vietnam, accounting for only 17% of Vietnam’s total shrimp exports.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After the good growth in 2017, Vietnam’s shrimp exports in 2018 continued to go up. In January 2018, Vietnam exported shrimp to 49 markets with the export turnover of US$264.8 million, up 33.2% over the same period in 2017.