In 2020 and 2021, seafood exports to the CPTPP bloc decreased by 2%, mainly due to the impact of Covid affecting trade and reducing import demand. Accordingly, exports to Japan decreased by 3% and 7% respectively in 2 years, which was the main reason for the decrease in total exports to this bloc. 

According to Goldman Sachs, about 77 cargo ships worth $24 billion, waiting outside the docks in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, make their way into the United States. 

Companies in southern Vietnam are scrambling to recruit employees, offering higher salaries and benefits, as they seek to return to normal production levels after months of lockdowns.

A survey done in 300 companies in early September found that only about 40 percent of their workers wanted to return to work when the city reopened on Oct. 1. Many even planned to return after Lunar New Year in early February next year, the survey by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Business Associations (HUBA) found.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien said that the ministry has grasped the situation of seafood enterprises and is removing difficulties.

In the first half of 2021, Vietnam's seafood production and export continued to be affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, which was still tense in many countries around the world and had a strong outbreak in the country

The unit will stop receiving imported goods from enterprises that have stopped production at Tan Cang Cat Lai port, Saigon Transportation Company said.

Market recovery and larger freights helped Vietnamese seaport and maritime transport enterprises, both state-owned and private, gain bigger profits in the first half of this year.