Russia plans to build a "fish transport hub" to help expand seafood exports to China

Published 2025년 12월 2일

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Core suggestion: To further enhance the export capabilities of aquatic products, particularly to expand supply to the Chinese market, the Russian fishing industry is currently planning to establish a national "fish storage and transportation hub" to improve the storage, transportation, and distribution system of fish and aquatic products. This plan was recently proposed by Herman Zverev, the president of the All-Russian Association of Fishery Producers (VARPE), and several other industry representatives.

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Currently, Russia's existing cold chain logistics and storage and transportation system can no longer meet the needs of industry development, facing numerous bottlenecks in year-round transportation and unified storage. Zverev pointed out that the new storage and transportation hub will become an important node connecting capture, processing, storage, and export, especially helping to improve supply efficiency for the Asian market. For example, live crabs from the Barents Sea region still face high losses and high costs when transported to the Chinese and South Korean markets, so most products can only be exported to Japan in frozen form. Logistics limitations have become a key obstacle restricting Russia's high-end live fresh products from entering the Asian market. However, this grand plan still faces practical obstacles in its promotion. Due to high financing difficulties and complex land acquisition, both domestic and foreign investors are currently cautious. According to data ...

Source: Foodmate