One of China’s leading centers of the seafood processing industry is reporting solid shipments to Southeast Asian nations better known as exporters of seafood.
Chinese processors in the city of Rongcheng, which imports unprocessed fish from around the world, shipped 2,390 metric tons (MT) of seafood to Indonesia in the first 11 months of 2017. The exports, mainly composed of processed and chilled squid, tuna, and mackerel, were worth USD 32.5 million (EUR 26.3 million), according to the city’s customs bureau.
In addition, Rongcheng shipped 1,360 MT of seafood to Vietnam in the first 11 months of 2017, worth USD 3.04 (EUR 2.46 million) million.
Thirty-five Rongcheng-based firms firms are registered to ship to Indonesia, while the province of Shandong has 76.
Leaders of Southeast Asian nations including Indonesia have vocally expressed their resentment of the influx of cheap seafood supply from China, which is in effect stifling the emergence of a local processing sector. Meanwhile, Indonesia and Vietnam are supplying unprocessed catfish and shrimp to China in ever greater quantities.
