Exports of tuna to Japan, one of thecountry’s two main tuna importers decreased continuously. Vietnam earnedonly 38 million USD from the market in the first ten months of the yeardue to a shortage of tuna.
During the period, the countrysaw increasing orders only from the European and Mexican markets out ofits ten largest import markets.
The situation led to a fall of 5.5 percent year on year in export earnings of the product to 450 million USD.
Last year, tuna brought home 600 million USD.-VNA

Ha Nam grants investment certificates for two key projects
Ha Nam province on February 13 licenced the high-precision circuit board manufacturing plant of Red Board Technology (Vietnam) Co., Ltd., and the kitchenware and related metal products manufacturing plant of Casla Kitchenware JSC.