According to the Directorate of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - Agriculture and Rural Development), this is the first shipment to open the new year of the fisheries sector, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to export to a series of high-end markets like the US, EU, Japan ...
"With 8 containers, each container holds about 20 MT of shrimp, more than 160 MT of shrimp processed by Minh Phu Hau Giang Fishery Joint Stock Company (Song Hau Industrial Park, phase 1, Chau Thanh district, Hau Giang province) will open for seafood export of the country"- Director of Directorate of Fisheries Tran Dinh Luan emphasized.
Hosted the first shrimp export ceremony abroad, Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien highlighted: Vietnam has been negotiating, signing, and implementing 16 free trade agreements (FTAs), especially several new free trade agreements such as CPTPP, EVFTA, and most recently RCEP.
“Regardless of the complicated developments of COVID-19, the shrimp industry has still been a high economic value industry. It is forecasted that shrimp exports in 2021 will raise by 15% compared to 2020, reaching US$ 4.4 billion ”- Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien said.
According to the director of the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) in the current context, the market has many fluctuations and challenges. Besides, the world economy in 2021 is forecasted to be complicated and unpredictable, reflecting in the increasingly fierce competition in strategy, trade conflicts, market competition, technology, and high-quality human resources;
“Non-traditional security challenges, especially climate change, have been increasing both in terms of impact and intensity. The disease progresses complicatedly, especially the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that countries issued the lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 has partly created disruptions in the supply chain and trade flows. Those are bottlenecks that Vietnam needs to overcome to achieve the growth as expected "- Dr. Nguyen Quoc Toan said.
(vasep.com.vn) Through the first quarter of the year, in a context where the shrimp industry still faced many risks, shrimp exporting enterprises still showed efforts and determination in production and business.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first quarter of this year, Vietnam's shrimp exports reached over 686 million USD, an increase of 14% over the same period in 2023.
Having identified its weakness in 2023, entering the first quarter of 2024, Vietnam's shrimp industry has undergone a clear change, reflected through increases in exports to major markets.
It is necessary to develop more detailed and consistent regulations on seafood production for export in line with the implementation of solutions towards sustainable and responsible fishing practices.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After increasing to the highest level in 2022, Canada's tuna imports in 2023 dropped to the lowest level in the past 10 years, reaching 35 thousand tons, down 24% over the year. Canada is currently one of the 15 largest tuna import markets in the world.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Chile, one of the countries participating in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), has tended to increase tuna imports from Vietnam in the past 3 years. According to statistics from Vietnam Customs, this South American country imported nearly 3 million USD of tuna products from Vietnam in the first 2 months of 2024, an increase of 58% over the same period in 2023.
Economic and social development activities, overexploitation, pollution, diseases, and climate change have adversely affected the ecological environment, leading to a severe decline or the extinction of many precious indigenous aquatic species.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The prices of pangasius fingerlings and raw pangasius in ponds fell in March, following steady increases in the first two months of this year.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In February 2024, the average export price of Vietnamese pangasius to markets increased by 4%, although the volume decreased by 40% compared to the previous month.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) There was a 6% decline in Vietnam's pangasius exports to Brazil in February 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, with the total value reaching 6 million USD.
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