The short supply of raw material and costly quality tests remain the biggest obstacles facing local seafood exporters, a meeting heard on Tuesday.??
Speaking at a meeting held by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP), Nguyen Thi Thu Sac, VASEP’s deputy chairwoman, said the material shortage would remain a tough problem without a government effort to find an answer for it.??
She said many of the hundreds of seafood processing plants along the central coast have had to stay closed, since most of the raw materials have been bought up by Chinese traders.
??“Many local processors have had to import raw materials for moderate production over the last two years,” she said.??
Adding to the problem is the fact that processors have had to wait as long as a week for their cargos to arrive, while in other countries, the time was only a couple of days, she added.??She said many global importers had chosen Vietnamese businesses as their seafood outsourcing processors thanks to low labor costs and the presence of a large workforce.??
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