Posts Tagged ‘ Seafood Products ’

Seafood processors seeking new routes to market for produce

January 21, 2010
Seafood processors seeking new routes to market for produce

Making safer and higher quality products is not difficult but their biggest concern is how to get their products to the consumers. As it stands, supermarket remains the only distribution channel for processed seafood Nguyen Thi Hai, the owner of Hanoi Supermarket Chain said that consumers nowadays have high requirements for  the quality of products. Therefore, [...]

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Fishy goings on in the seafood export industry

December 11, 2009
Fishy goings on in the seafood export industry

VietNamNet Bridge – VASEP has repeatedly advised members to remain cautious when doing business with foreign importers. The warning has been released after many Vietnamese seafood exporters did not receive payment from foreign partners. Klion Company Ltd, which is headquartered in Ukraine and has two branches in Panama, did not make payment for a consignment of seafood [...]

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Opportunities to develop the fishing industry

December 5, 2009
Opportunities to develop the fishing industry

VietNamNet Bridge – Under the European Council’s new regulation, as of January 2010, seafood products exported to the EU market must have certificates of origin and the fishing vessel’s registration. The regulation aims to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). The EU is currently Vietnam’s largest export market, accounting for one third of its exports. [...]

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Agricultural exports to meet targets

September 29, 2009
Agricultural exports to meet targets

LookAtVietnam – Agricultural export value is likely to meet Government targets for the year but will remain lower than last year, In the first nine months of this year, the total national export value for agricultural, forestry and seafood products reached $11 billion, 12 per cent lower than the same period last year.The ministry projected [...]

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VASEP proposes to lower import tariff on materials to boost exports

September 25, 2009
VASEP proposes to lower import tariff on materials to boost exports

VietNamNet Bridge – The VASEP has called on the Government to ‘rescue’ the seafood industry by lowering the tariff on material imports for domestic processing. VASEP’s Deputy Chairman Nguyen Huu Dung said that Vietnam needs to import materials in big quantities to feed domestic processing factories. There are some 700 seafood processing factories now in [...]

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Consumer prices rising slightly

September 15, 2009
Consumer prices rising slightly

LookAtVietnam – Unlike previously, the petrol price hike earlier this month has only made food prices increase slightly. The prices of some foods and vegetables in some retail markets in Hanoi have been found as increasing slightly in recent days. Hang, a petty merchant at Hom-Duc Vien Market, said that seafood products have seen prices increase [...]

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Gearing up to prevent an economic slowdown

August 29, 2009
Gearing up to prevent an economic slowdown

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s export sector is facing a number of difficulties and is in danger of seeing growth decline in the near future. Cao Sy Kiem, president of the Vietnam Association for Small-and-Medium- Sized Enterprises says that in the current situation it will be difficult to obtain an export growth of 3 percent. Many experts [...]

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Farmers quit industry as shrimp exports fall

July 16, 2009
Farmers quit industry as shrimp exports fall

LookAtVietnam – Global shrimp consumption is expected to decline further in the remaining months of the year due to the economic downturn, predicts the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). In Bac Lieu province, the country’s biggest “shrimp basket”, total earnings from seafood export in the first half of the year was [...]

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Catfish output down, prices likewise

June 18, 2009
Catfish output down, prices likewise

VietNamNet Bridge – Tra (Vietnamese catfish) farmers in the Mekong River Delta are miserable because fish prices have been sliding continuously even while fish production is decreasing. First-class tra fish is now selling at 14,500 dong per kilogramme of unprocessed fish, while second-class fish fetch 12-14,000 dong per kilogramme, a sharp fall of 1,800 dong [...]

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Seafood industry ‘lacks vision’

June 12, 2009
Seafood industry ‘lacks vision’

LookAtVietnam – The nation’s seafood industry is yet to formulate a long-term development strategy to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by Viet Nam’s membership in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Despite the global economic crisis, seafood export turnover is expected to reach $4.5 billion, equal to last year.This appraisal emerged at a summing-up meeting [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...