(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Mekong Fisheries Joint Stock Company (Mekongfish Co.) announced its gross profit from sales of goods and services in QIII/2016 with VND5.3 billion, down from VND8.9 billion in the same period of 2015. The figure in Jan-Sep 2016 estimated at VND17.5 billion, down from VND24.1 billion in the same period of 2015.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) As of Oct 2016, Vietnam’s exports of 3 key items including shrimp, pangasius and tuna have increased slightly over the same period last year. However, due to difficulties in production of raw materials as well as strong competition in most major importing markets, Vietnam’s seafood exports haven’t marked a breakthrough.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the third quarter of 2016, net revenue from sales and services of Vietnam seaproducts - Joint stock corporation (Seaprodex) amounted to VND31.1 billion, sharply increasing by 287% compared with VND8.06 billion in the same period last year.

Vietnam’s agro-fishery-forestry exports to China hit 26.4 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2016, a rise of 6.3 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Until the end of September 2016, total surimi exports of Vietnam reached US$181.6 surimi million, down 16.6% from the same period last year. Vietnam exported surimi to 33 markets, 6 markets lower compared to the same period of 2015. Top 5 major markets including Japan, South Korea, EU, China and Taiwan accounted for 69% of total exports.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Until Sep 2016, export turnover of almost seafood products by Vietnam showed the growth or slight decline on par with the same period of last year. In particularly, shrimp exports rose 5.6%; pangasius up 6.2%; tuna up 3.8%; other finfish up 7.3%, crab and other crustacean up 10.4% and mollusk downed 3.4%.

There are some great reasons for optimism regarding expanding fish and seafood exports to the Russian market, says the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep).

The country’s seafood exports are expected to reach 7 billion USD this year, a year-on-year increase of 5.5 percent, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Producers and Exporters (Vasep).

The export value of agro-forestry-fishery products in the first ten months of this year reached 26.4 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 6.3 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 9 months of this year, fishery production of Ho Chi Minh city (Vietnam) estimated at 35,880 MT, down 3.3% over the same period last year.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 8 months of 2016, excluding cephalopod, Vietnam exports of most seafood items showed the positive growth.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 9 months of this year, shrimp export turnover of Ngoc Tri Seafood joint stock company (Ngoc Tri Seafood) amounted to over US$50 million, equal to that in 2015.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) will conduct an auction of 286,500 shares of Cafatex Fishery Joint Stock Company, with the starting price at VND101,100 per share.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first half of this year, the net revenue of Vietnam Seaproducts – Joint Stock Corporation (Seaprodex) (sales of goods and customer services) valued at VND741.6 billion, down from the same period the previous year.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, as of mid- Aug 2016, Vietnam seafood exports amounted to nearly US$4 billion, up 5% over the same period last year. The figure in Jan-Aug 2016 was estimated at about US$4.36 billion, an increase of 4% year on year.