Vietnam crab exporters achieve higher revenues, despite sales decline to No. 1 market

Vietnam exported crab products worth USD 49.8 million (EUR 45 million) in the first six months of this year, a rise of 3.1 percent year-on-year, with increased sales to the Japanese and EU markets.

Thanks to strong growth in first-quarter sales, crab exports to Japan in the first-half of 2016 totaled USD 9.3 million (EUR 8.4 million), up 12 percent year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). In the same period, its exports to the EU reached USD…