Toan Dao

Contributing Editor reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam

Toan Dao has written about Vietnam’s business community, with a focus on energy and agriculture, for a number of Vietnamese and international outlets for more than 10 years. As a contributing editor for SeafoodSource in Southeast Asia, he also covers other major seafood producers in the region including Indonesia and Thailand.

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December 23, 2021

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has sent a petition to the country’s central government asking for changes in national seafood import quarantine regulations ... 

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December 22, 2021

Karnataka, India-based seafood supply chain platform Captain Fresh has raised USD 40 million (EUR 35.4 million) in its Series B funding round to support its continued growth

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December 21, 2021

Singapore-based aquaculture-service provider Qian Hu Corporation has signed an agreement to provide an unsecure convertible loan worth SGD 1 million (USD 733,000, EUR 650,000) to AquaEasy, a subsidiary of the Bosch Group ... 

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December 20, 2021
Vinh Hoan,Vietnam’s leading pangasius exporter, raised its export value in November through increased sales to the United States and China. The company exported VND 912 billion (USD 39.7 million, EUR 35.3 million) worth of seafood products in the month, up 38 percent from November 2020, Vinh Hoan said in its latest update. The U.S. remained the company's most-important market, with sales valued at VND 415 billion (USD 18 million, EUR… Read More
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December 13, 2021

Prices of seafood products in Malaysia are likely to increase in the coming months due to a shortage of workers in the local fishing industry ... 

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December 10, 2021

Bangkok, Thailand-based food giant Charoen Pokphand Foods’ (CP Foods) Vietnam unit, C.P. Vietnam, has raised its stake in shrimp producer Fimex to 25 percent …

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December 8, 2021

Vietnam’s squid and octopus exports have recovered but producers there are still facing material shortages ... 

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December 7, 2021

Authorities in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta – home to most of the country’s commercial aquaculture operations – have taken legal proceedings against a number of seafood businesses due to their alleged violations of regulations instituted to limit a national COVID-19 outbreak over the summer.

On 1 December, local police arrested Pham Huyen Trang, 41, and Luu Thanh Hung, 48, owners of a private seafood production facility in Long

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December 6, 2021

Vietnam’s shrimp sales recovered in October, but the nation’s processors are still facing disruptions from the country’s worst-ever COVID-19 outbreak ... 

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December 3, 2021

An Giang, Vietnam-based pangasius firm Nam Viet Joint Stock Company – or Navico – and its South Korean partner, Amicogen, have begun work on a new collagen and gelatin factory in the Mekong Delta.

Construction on the plant, which is slated to produce collagen and gelatin from pangasius skin, had been put on hold from its initial planned groundbreaking date …

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