Topic: Seafood exports

Figure represents a 5.6% increase year-on-year.

Export value likely to be down for 2023 as a whole.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan sought industry improvements at a conference with 28 coastal cities and provinces on August 26.

Production costs forecast to fall on lower input and transport prices.

Low consumption demand, inflation, and stricter import rules behind tumbling figures.

Export volumes and seafood prices have continued to decline.

Export value hit $11bln in 2022 from $800mln in 1998, celebrations of VASEP’s 25th anniversary hear.

Revenue in first five months falls 25.9%.

Package estimated to total $421 million.

First-quarter figures tending downwards after solid performance in 2022.