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Vietnam attends Seoul Seafood Show

High-quality fishery products and the latest seafood processing technologies are being exhibited at the 11th Seoul Seafood Show in the Republic of Korea (RoK) by 139 businesses from all over the world, including Vietnam.
High-quality fishery products and the latest seafood processingtechnologies are being exhibited at the 11th Seoul Seafood Show in theRepublic of Korea (RoK) by 139 businesses from all over the world,including Vietnam.

This year’s event is organisedby the Korea Fisheries Association at the COEX Convention and ExhibitionCentre in Seoul between April 15 and 17.

Items ondisplay include seafood, seasoning and food additives; food processingmachinery and related equipment; packaging; physical distributionequipment; refrigerators, freezers and thawing machines; and feed foraquaculture.

Workshops exchanging the latesttechnologies in seafood sanitation control and processing will also beheld on the sidelines of the 3-day show.

The eventoffers an opportunity for Vietnamese enterprises to promote theirproducts and look for foreign buyers, particularly from the RoK, andadvanced technologies, in order to make inroad into both local andinternational markets.

According to the VietnamCommercial Office in the RoK, Vietnam exported 652 million USD worth ofseafood to the partner last year, up 27.8 percent from 2013.

The RoK is currently Vietnam 3 rd largest seafood buyer, followed the United States and Japan.-VNA
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