COVID-19

With China rushing to get ready for Chinese New Year celebrations on 1 February, anxieties over COVID-19 appear to have dampened seafood prices and shifted trade online.

Prices sag as consumers stay away from markets in run-up to Chinese New Year

January 27, 2022
Datassential Director Kelley Fechner said the seafood industry is facing headwinds as a result of restaurant trends influenced by the COVID-19 crisis.

Restaurant menu shifts punishing seafood sales to foodservice sector

January 26, 2022
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will remove quarantine regulations for frozen processed seafood products imported for domestic processing for export purposes.

Vietnam to remove quarantine regulations for imported processed seafood

January 25, 2022
A Canadian semi-truck waits for a ferry.

Trucking industry grappling with Canadian, US COVID-19 vaccine mandates

January 24, 2022
Vietnam’s leading pangasius exporter, Vinh Hoan, saw its net profits in 2021 rise significantly despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vinh Hoan, Navico post contrasting 2021 results

January 24, 2022
Restaurant operators face significant challenges – especially finding enough employees – but have pent-up dining demand in their favor, according to B. Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the National Restaurant Association Research and Knowledge Group.

Restaurants’ headwinds include labor, inflation, but pent-up demand in their favor

January 21, 2022
Norway’s seafood shipments to China rose 29 percent in value and volume in 2021.

Norway’s exports to China edging back to pre-pandemic levels

January 20, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated the industry’s ability to use forecasting for business-planning purposes, according to three seafood industry executives.

“Everyone’s crystal ball is broken” – COVID-19 has scrambled the industry’s ability to plan ahead

January 20, 2022
Officials in Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam have announced the province is temporarily banning vehicles carrying frozen seafood.

Overloaded by traffic, Vietnamese province near Chinese border suspends frozen seafood transport

January 19, 2022
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