Thursday, December 21, 2006

Vietnam’s seafood exports worth more than 3bio US$

This is an growth of 11% growth, compared to 2005, grace to high global prices. Both traditional markets like Japan, the US, and the EU and new ones like the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America were big buyers.

Shipments to Japan were worth 834mio US$ (+22%), to the EU 713mio US$ (+87%) and to the US 643mio US$ (+4%).

The fishery ministry attributed the strong performance to the industry’s focus on quality, trade promotion, and forecast of prices and demand.
It has set a target of 9 percent annual increase in exports to 4-4.5bio US$ by 2010.

Source: Thanh Nien

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