Vietnam: Pangasius exports to all markets reached nearly 1.8 billion USD

Seafood

Vietnam

Published Sep 6, 2022

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Information from the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), after maintaining at over 1 billion USD continuously from March to June, to July 2022, Vietnam's seafood exports have cooled down to below 1 billion USD and continued this trend in August with sales of 917 million USD, 3% lower than the turnover in July.

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Although compared to the same period last year, seafood exports in August 2022 are 54% higher, but according to Ms. Le Hang, Deputy Director of VASEP.PRO Center, this growth does not represent an optimistic trend because this month Last 8 years was the peak month of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Mekong Delta region, seafood production was interrupted, exports fell to the lowest level of the year. Notably, according to VASEP, shrimp exports dropped the most in seafood products. From a peak of 456 million USD in May, to August, shrimp exports fell to 356 million USD, 26% higher than the same period last year. In which, whiteleg shrimp exports reached 285 million USD, up 32%, black tiger shrimp exports reached 47 million USD, down nearly 7%. Lobster exports continued to break through with a growth of 163% in August and the cumulative increase of 8 months increased more than 5 times compared to the same period last year. Accumulated in the first 8 months of the year, shrimp exports ...

Source: Danviet