(vasep.com.vn) Asia Foodstuff Import Export Co., Ltd (Asia) said that the company's value-added seafood products occupied larger market shares in foreign countries. Focus on value-added products was a measure to help the company solve difficulties due to short supply of raw materials, especially shrimp and mollusks.

Singapore’s seafood firms have been busy this year opening new markets, with trips to China, Burma and India in the past year to source and sell seafood.

(vasep.com.vn) Mekong Delta provinces are sustainably developing the fishery industry to reach goals by 2020. The superficies for aquaculture will reach 1 million hectares, providing total production of 2.5 million MT, including 450,000 MT of shrimp.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam seafood exporters hope that processed and value-added seafood products exported to South Korea will enjoy lower duty rates thanks to free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and South Korea being negotiated by the two countries.

(vasep.com.vn) By 2015, the project will bring the aquaculture area of 1.1 million hectares, aquaculture production of 3.6 million MT with the export turnover up to US$3.5 – US$4 billion and create jobs for 3 million workers.

The contest “Golden Hands in Fish Processing Industry of Dong Thap 2011” was held in Sa Dec industrial park by Dong Thap Labor Union and other provincial departments including Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Trade and Industry, the Management Board of the provincial economy.

In October alone the country's seafood

(vasep.com.vn) www.vasep.com.vn, an official website of Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers, has been created and operated for over 11 years. With an aim to become a leading portal of Vietnam fishery and comprehensively support for VASEP members and fish sector, the new portal intergrated modern technologies, was officially introduced to VASEP’members and all visitors on February 2nd 2012.

The Government should reduce administrative procedures related to food safety and quarantine of seafood export from and import into the country, delegates told a conference in HCM City last Saturday.

On 5th November 2010 in Hanoi the

Despite the belief in some quarters that China will buy anything, that does not seem the case at this year's Hong Kong based Asian Seafood Expo.

Total seafood production in the first

(vasep.com.vn) In order to use energy economically and effectively, the Mekong Delta has initially established energy management system and implemented power saving solutions, particularly in rice and seafood processing.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

(vasep.com.vn) In February 17th 2012, representatives from three associations: Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP), Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS), Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (LEFASO) signed and sent a common document to Government Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), Ministry of Finance (MOF) on petitioning exemption from environment protection duty levied on nylon plastic bags used in packaging for their exported products.