CHINA MARKET NEWS
China’s Shrimp Imports Expected To Rise And So Are The Prices
August 15, 2019 www.seafoodnews.com Imported seafood has become increasingly popular in the Chinese market. Last year China's import value was said to have increased by US$3.62 billion to reach US$11.91 billion, while volume increased to about 7.6 million tons....
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Lobster Index Says China Still on the Boil
http://www.seafoodnews.com If the lobster barometer is anything to go by, demand at the top end of the Chinese market remains on the boil despite downgrades in China's growth forecasts. The biggest player in Australia's most valuable wild-catch fishery continues to...
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Saudi shrimp pours into China curbing Spring Festival price rises
By Louis Harkell Undercurrent News Feb. 21, 2019 10:46 GMT Undercurrent News industry sources expect strong Chinese demand for shrimp in 2019, even after wholesale price rises slowed in the run-up to Chinese New Year due to plentiful supply from, of all places, Saudi...
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King Crab and Lobster Shine for Chinese New Year, ‘The Most Important Dinner in China’
February 14 Undercurrentnews.com China’s largest-scale shopping carnival has come to an end with the ending of the lunar New Year holiday recently. Impressively, its residents spent more than 1 trillion yuan celebrating the holiday. One new feature of festival...
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China’s direct imports of crustaceans now worth billions
By Louis Harkell Undercurrentnews.com Feb. 5, 2019 09:26 GMT Booming imports of shrimp stood out amongst China’s top seafood imports of 2018, with 192,991 metric tons of shrimp worth $1.36 billion imported directly by the country last year, up 203% in volume and 187%...
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China’s seafood imports balloon by 44% to $12bn in 2018
By Louis Harkell Undercurrent News Jan. 23, 2019 13:46 GMT China’s seafood imports ballooned by a massive 44% to $11.9 billion last year as the country continues to change the face of global seafood trade. In the twelve months to the end of December 2018, China...
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Norway to prioritize pelagic sales to China in 2019
By Undercurrent News Jan. 22, 2019 09:15 GMT The Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) plans to make increased pelagic sales to China one of its priorities in 2019. It has announced plans for a project which focuses on increasing market insight and facilitating network...
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Chinese Demand Driving Investment in New Brunswick’s Lobster Industry
New Brunswick's lobster industry is drawing closer to China as the apetite for the premium Canadian seafood grows in that country. Newly released figures show the volume of Atlantic Canada's lobster sold to China jumped 50 per cent in 2018, to 12 million kilograms....
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First Direct Freighter Flight Between Norway, China Starts With Seafood Transport
A Slovakian air cargo company has started carrying Norwegian seafood to China in the first direct freighter flight between Norway and the Asian country, Norway's state-owned operator of civil airports Avinor said on Friday. Air Cargo Global started on Thursday its new...
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Saudi Arabia Is Shipping 6,000 Tons of Shrimp to China
December 13, 2018 http://www.seafoodnews.com Saudi Arabia is adding a new commodity to its oil-heavy trade with China: frozen shrimp. The world’s largest oil exporter has shipped 6,000 tons of the crustaceans to China since last week, Ahmed Al-Bala’a, chief executive...
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China Cracks Down on Smuggling and Improves Logistics for Legal Imports
December 17, 2018 http://www.seafoodnews.com Smuggling has been haunting China’s seafood industry for a long time, and the country's customs bureaus have decided to take stricter measures to eradicate the problem. They have recently cracked down on a series of...
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