Vietnamese Seafood Exporters Pin Hope on Chile

Vietnamese seafood exporters expected that their products will be more widely consumed in Chile as a lot of companies in this Southern American country are interested in Vietnamese seafood.

 

In the seafood trade promotion tour to Chile starting from Sep 11 to 14, Vietnamese exporters met several large seafood distributors in the country, including Terminal Pesquero Metropolitano (TPM), who accounted for 50 per cent of Chile’s seafood market share.

 

Nguyen Phu Quy, head of marketing office of the Can Tho Seafood Im-Export Co. (CASEMEX), said his company won contract to export cat tiger shrimp, boiled and shelled shrimp, and fillet fish.

 

Meanwhile, Viet An-An Giang Fish Co. or ANVIFISH, NTACO, BASEFOOD and HA LONG SIMEXCO gained seafood export deals with Chile’s companies.

 

At the “Vietnam-Chile Seafood, Facts and Chances” workshop, Nguyen Huu Dung, Deputy President of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (Vasep) and head of the tour, described Chile as an ideal place for the Vietnamese fisheries sector to build a bridge to the Latin American market and Vietnam was an ideal place for Chile to boost its exports to East Asia.

 

Dung singled out Chilean salmon as a product that was most preferred in Vietnam and increasing its market share at the expense of Norwegian salmon, its chief rival in the country.

 

Vietnam-Chile trade turnover gained 51 per cent growth, from US$103 million in 2005 to US$156 million in 2006.

 

In the first seven months of 2007, Vietnam exported US$25.42 million worth of products to Chile, up 21 per cent on year. (Trade)