Toan Dao

Contributing Editor reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam

Toan Dao has written about Vietnam’s business community, with a focus on energy and agriculture, for a number of Vietnamese and international outlets for more than 10 years. As a contributing editor for SeafoodSource in Southeast Asia, he also covers other major seafood producers in the region including Indonesia and Thailand.


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April 13, 2022

India’s seafood-export value reached an all-time high in its most-recent fiscal year, which ended 31 March, 2022 …

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April 12, 2022

Exporters from Russia are shipping more crab to South Korea after being locked out of other international markets.

Many of the world’s biggest markets for crab, including the U.S., the E.U., the U.K. have announced bans on Russian seafood imports in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Simultaneously, Chinese government has imposed lockdowns in Shanghai and several other cities to control a COVID-19 outbreak, a move expected to hinder

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April 7, 2022

Vietnam increased exports of its pangasius products in the first two months of 2022, with sales to most of its major markets surging ... 

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April 6, 2022

Dong Thap, Vietnam-based International Development and Investment Corporation (IDI) is planning to build a third pangasius-processing facility ... 

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April 5, 2022

Ca Mau, Vietnam-based Minh Phu Seafood has decided to more than double the charter capital of its Japan-based subsidiary in an effort to boost its shrimp sales ... 

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April 5, 2022

Soc Trang, Vietnam-based shrimp exporter Fimex (Sao Ta) plans to commission its new shrimp processing plants in the third quarter of this year ... 

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April 1, 2022

Vietnam increased its exports of several seafood species to China in the first two months of 2022, despite an intensification of China’s inspection efforts of imported food ... 

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March 31, 2022

Indian aquaculture startup Aquaconnect has raised INR 600 million (USD 7.9 million, EUR 7.1 million) in a venture debt funding round led by India-based venture debt firm Trifecta Capital ... 

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March 28, 2022

Vietnam’s shrimp and pangasius exports to the U.K. increased by value in the first two months of 2022, but its sales of tuna products decreased ... 

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March 25, 2022

Vietnam saw its tuna export value rise in the first two months thanks mainly to the increase in sales to the U.S. and the E.U. …

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