Seafood producers at Mahachai Market in Samut Sakhon, a coastal province bordering Bangkok, have been working overtime to build up two months of supplies before the floodwaters reach them.
Cold -torage operators at the market, the country’s largest trading center for fresh and frozen seafood, have seen their incomes cut in half during the flood as exporters are reluctant to keep their raw materials in cold storage.
“Exporters are afraid that they cannot carry their raw materials out from cold storage at Mahachai as the flood is expanding,” a cold-storage facility owner said last week.
The flood is nearing Mahachai and Rama II Road. Operators are facing increases in logistics costs of 10 to 20 percent due to the greater difficulty in transporting freight.
The cold-storage operators are now trying to set up their own barriers and pumps to prevent flooding in the near future.
