Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh called for Australian and Vietnamese businesses to foster their trade and investment partnership, prioritizing cooperation, in human resources, infrastructure, high technology, wind power and renewable power from waste.

The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau is implementing various measures to realise its goal of 2 billion USD worth of shrimp exports by 2020. The goal increases to 3 billion USD by in 2030.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Currently, favorable weather facilitated fishing activities in the South fishing season, with main species such as silver croaker, tuna, scads, cuttlefish and mackerel.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In May 2017, the area for intensive, semi-intensive shrimp stocking reached 1,846 hectares (including 994 hectares for black tiger shrimp farming, 852 hectares for whiteleg shrimp farming), down 05 hectares compared to the previous month and up 515 hectares over the same period in 2016.

Vietnam’s aquaculture output reached 370,000 tonnes in May, a year-on-year increase of 3.3 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang plans to build a logistics centre at a cost of over 1.5 trillion VND (66.03 million USD), aiming to reduce logistics cost in the region and improve competitiveness of regional products in both domestic and foreign markets.

Vietnam’s aquatic product export turnover reached 618 million USD in May, pushing the total figure in the first five months of 2017 to 2.8 billion USD, a year-on-year rise of 10.4 percent, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Fisheries output of Ho Chi Minh city (Vietnam) in April 2017 hit 4,421.9 MT, down 3.2% over the same period in 2016.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first four months of 2017, capture production of Binh Thuan province (Vietnam) reached 48,458.8 MT, an increase of 34% over the same period in 2016.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a decision on the establishment and operational regulations of a high technology agriculture area specialised in shrimp development in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.

The export value of agricultural, forestry and aquatic products reached 13.7 billion USD in the first five months of 2017, a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to Ca Mau Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the province is actively implementing the project to improve productivity, quality, efficiency and sustainable development of shrimp farming.

The General Department of Customs has said that the sector will continue reducing customs clearance time for exports and imports and simplifying administrative procedures, thus saving costs in this field.

The northern province of Quang Ninh has began building a high-quality shrimp breeding and aquatic processing complex in Dam Ha district.

The marine economy has potential for the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang financially and can contribute to protecting national sea and island sovereignty.