(vasep.com.vn) Recognizing VASEP as the strongest and most legitimate representative which can ensure for sustainable development of Vietnam fisheries industry, Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) – Danish Embassy has launched a programme of enhancing the capacity building for VASEP staffs as a part of the support project for Vietnam fisheries industry in 2011 - 2012. In which enhancing policy dialogue capacity in Vietnam to improve the business environment for the fisheries industry is a priority of VASEP.

(vasep.com.vn) Eighteen Vietnam enterprises will make a fact-finding tour of Alger City, Algeria, from October 18-24, according to the Africa, West Asia and South Asia Department directly under Ministry of Industry and Trade.

(vasep.com.vn) The Middle East is an important economic partner especially in cooperation in trade, crude oil, industrial production. Vietnam aims to reach trade turnover of US$7.5 billion to the region by 2015.

Fisheries output in 2009 amounted

(vasep.com.vn) In the Red River Delta, aquaculture including shrimp farming has been developed well and shrimp products were exported to many countries. Shrimp farming created thousands of jobs for local people. However, the number of farmers who can’t remain their farming is increasingly high.

Seafood Barcelona showed off a collection of new products and trends, many of which have not yet been introduced in supermarkets.

(vasep.com.vn) After Hung Vuong Corporation, Minh Phu Seafood Group Corporation (Minh Phu Seafood Corp) is offering to sell more than 26.5 million of shares to foreign investors. Other companies in Vietnamese fishery industry are finding foreign investors before officially listing their shares on the stock exchange.

(vasep.com.vn) Green growth and sustainable business is an important chapter in negotiations of the Vietnam-EU free trade agreement (FTA), Jacques Bouflet, Minister Counsellor and Head of the trade and economic affairs section at the Delegation of the EU to Vietnam said.

In the first seven months of 2013, fishery and aquaculture product exports in Chile reached a value of USD 3,059 million. This represents an increase of 8.7 per cent over the same period of 2012, when USD 2,813 million was obtained.

(vasep.com.vn) Agricultural products from Vietnam to South Korea like coffee, rubber and seafood are facing tough competition from other supplying countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and Myanmar. This information was revealed by Le An Hai, Deputy Head of Asia-Pacific Market Department under the Ministry of Trade and Industry at the conference entitled “ASEAN – South Korea Free Trade Agreement: Opportunities for Vietnam agricultural products exported to South Korea” hold on October 4th, 2013, in Ho Chi Minh City.

(Greenpeace) A broad coalition of civil society groups praised the European Parliament environment committee for its strong stand today on EU fisheries reform. In a vote on the reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the members of the parliament overwhelmingly supported measures to recover fish stocks, promote environmental protection of the marine environment and reduce fishing pressure while supporting sustainable fishing.

(vasep.com.vn) Through November 2013, total fish production was estimated to reach nearly 5.5 million MT, up 2.6 percent year-on-year.

(SeafoodSource) Trade experts in China’s seafood processing hub, the southeastern city of Qingdao, are optimistic that a new trade pact between China, Japan and Korea will propel modernization of the city’s industry and drive trade.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Ministry of Finance (MoF), the government will consider a bailout package worth VND29 trillion for enterprises to boost economic growth.

More than 40 businesses from China’s Guangdong province explored cooperation opportunities at a seminar in HCM City on December 9.