According to the General Department of Customs, in September, Vietnam exported 129,000 tonnes of seafood worth USD600 million, down 34.3% and 27.39 percent on-year.
Vietnam exported 1.41 million tonnes of seafood products worth USD6.16 billion in the first nine months of this year
This was the second consecutive month Vietnam witnessed an on-year sharp fall in seafood exports. In August, the country’s seafood exports reached 128,580 tonnes worth USD595 million, down 30.6 percent and 26.6 percent year-on-year. The fall has been mainly attributed to the Covid-19 outbreak in southern localities, affecting seafood factories.
Demand for seafood imports from many foreign markets, including the US, EU, Japan and South Korea from now to the year-end has been forecasted to sharply increase, particularly for shrimp between October and mid-November.
Localities would need to speed up the Covid-19 vaccination for workers to ensure the operations of businesses.
Tra fish import demand from the US has remained high.
To Tuong Lan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers said that localities need to create favourable conditions for the resumption of firms as the pandemic situation has improved.