(vasep.com.vn) In Q3, consolidated revenue of MPC reached VND 4,554 billion, up VND 907 billion, equivalent to 25% year on year. Gross profit increased to VND 534 billion, up 34% year on year. Profit after tax reached VND 198 billion, up 50% year on year.

(vasep.com.vn) Shrimp exports to the US slowed down from QIII/2014, growing 0.9% compared to the same period in 2013. Exports surged in the two previous quarters led to 51.2% year on year increase in accumulated value, which reached US$ 820.6 million.

(vasep.com.vn) Statistics show that in the first 9 months of 2014, Korea shrimp imports increased by 6.4% year on year in volume, and that from Vietnam rose by 50.2%.

(vasep.com.vn) Leaders of the Food Safety Institute (representing VinaCert-Control JSC) along with Director of Fisheries Technology and Services Center of Vietnam awarded VietGAP certification for Tan Van, a whiteleg shrimp aquaculture private company in Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province.

(vasep.com.vn) According to the General Directorate of Fisheries, as of 31st October 2014, brackish water shrimp was farmed in approximately 676 thousand hectares, up 3.6% year on year.

(vasep.com.vn) Two billion whiteleg shrimp posts were produced by 16 hatcheries in Khanh Hoa.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first 9 months of 2014, Vietnam shrimp exports reached US$ 2.93 billion, up 42.3% year on year. The US continued to be the leading import market for shrimp from Vietnam in Q3/2014 although in this quarter, Vietnam shrimp exports to the US were lower than in the first half of 2014.

(vasep.com.vn) From the beginning of 2014, Nam Can district has supplied 2,290 MT of processed seafood, 2,000 MT of which were exported. Most of exported seafood products of Nam Can were frozen shrimp. Exports reached US$ 34.5 million, up 38% year on year.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Ca Mau Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, total fisheries production in October was estimated at 36,000 MT, making accumulated fish production of the year to over 418,000 MT.

VASEP.PRO intends to conduct two training courses in sensory evaluation for the two main export seafood subjects including shrimp and pangasius with the teaching and practice guidance of Mr. James Barnett, a leading sensory expert of the United States and a former senior official of the U.S. FDA.

(vasep.com.vn) As reported by the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, massive shrimp farming area increased sharply, reaching nearly 8,000 hectares.

Quoc Viet has become the first Asian shrimp farmer to obtain Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification.

(vasep.com.vn) The year 2014 saw a success of VN Fimex with it’s sales reached VND 2,151 billion and profit before tax was VND 50.8 billion in the first 9 months of the year.

(vasep.com.vn) Never has the area of aquaculture in Soc Trang risen as sharply as this year. Reports from People's Committee of Soc Trang reveals that total aquaculture farming area in the province in 2014 was approximately 60,000 hectares, of which brackish water shrimp accounted for over 42,000 hectares.

(vasep.com.vn) On 14-15 October 2014 in Bangkok Thailand, the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting of Shrimp Standard of ASEAN region was held with the participations of key stakeholders.