In May, the country exported $ 765.75 million worth of seafood, up by 11.9 per cent over the previous month and by 7.9 per cent over the same month of last year.

Japan was leading the list of the country’s seafood export markets in the first five months of this year with the export turnover of $ 497.04 million, accounted for 15.5 per cent of the total and increased by 4.9 per cent over the same period last year.

The U.S ranked second with the export turnover of $ 492.14 million, up by 1.6 per cent; and then China - $ 396.54 million, up by 17.2 per cent; South Korea - $ 313.71 million, up by 19.4 per cent year - on - year.

In the first five months of this year, Vietnam’s exports of seafood to Cambodia increased sharply by 95.7 per cent to $ 10.17 million; to Egypt - up by 91.7 per cent to $ 17.4 million; to Pakistan - up by 85.9 per cent to $ 11.94 million; to the U.A.E - up by 64.2 per cent to $ 32.7 million; to the Netherlands - up by 63 per cent to $ 126.16 million; to Portugal - up by 60 per cent to $ 24.37 million.

However, the exports of seafood to Saudi Arabia; Indonesia; Czech; Brazil and Denmark fell sharply by 48 per cent; 44.5 per cent; 35.1 per cent; 32.1 per cent and 27.2 per cent, respectively year - on - year.

Market	May of 2018	May of 2018 vs. April of 2018 (%)	First 5 months of 2018	First 5 months of 2018 vs. same period of 2017 (%)
Total	765,747,275	11.91	3,208,047,758	12.39
Japan	120,746,157	7.05	497,043,815	4.93
The U.S	113,134,622	5.36	491,138,224	1.61
China	107,552,435	20.13	396,538,247	17.15
South Korea	70,994,894	10.52	313,714,111	19.37
The Netherlands	31,696,586	14.7	126,160,127	63.05
Thailand	25,444,506	22.61	109,515,203	17.73
Britain	22,345,770	2.59	101,032,687	18.17
Germany	17,631,679	8.93	78,838,909	26.81
Canada	19,375,662	27.84	77,652,992	12.67
Hong Kong	20,076,124	46.44	75,484,644	23.38
Australia	16,090,555	11.17	72,892,310	14.91
Belgium	17,190,748	17.33	63,920,192	26.93
Italy	12,994,130	13.38	53,281,770	3.86
The Philippines	14,088,611	43.19	45,347,933	11.79
Singapore	9,462,100	10.02	44,573,277	12.24
Malaysia	9,973,122	-2.9	44,433,175	18.6
Mexico	8,193,444	8.83	43,837,474	-1.77
France	10,209,511	21.13	42,126,035	11.9
Taiwan	10,251,881	3.26	40,362,117	1.01
Israel	10,016,464	42.83	37,481,266	22.23
Russia	8,667,864	-3.25	36,624,315	1.57
Brazil	5,232,440	-8.49	34,313,968	-32.06
The U.A.E	9,827,591	15.46	32,699,443	64.21
Colombia	3,996,736	-21.51	26,772,429	6.07
Spain	6,021,268	2.04	25,948,401	0.46
Portugal	5,841,145	3.49	24,369,640	60.14
Egypt	5,526,824	6.46	17,402,512	91.66
Denmark	3,573,239	34.09	14,441,184	-27.22
Saudi Arabia	363,038	-27.41	14,059,324	-47.97
Switzerland	3,939,823	71.22	12,959,953	-15.06
Pakistan	379,471	-71.49	11,941,555	85.91
India	2,156,881	3.59	11,663,476	44.36
Cambodia	1,738,874	-8.1	10,171,653	95.69
Poland	2,211,169	63.11	8,777,498	56.13
New Zealand	2,288,894	83.24	8,383,908	25.32
Sweden	1,261,929	-32.76	7,248,449	54.64
Ukraine	2,203,758	81.41	5,488,331	6.88
Greece	654,743	-16.49	3,828,580	14.71
Iraq	669,005	-40.01	3,605,259	30.23
Kuwait	571,178	-31.14	3,561,889	2.38
Turkey	557,374	-46.26	3,486,222	55.81
Czech	758,513	37.8	2,923,728	-35.05
Romania	609,112	-6.74	2,751,415	20.87
Indonesia	494,644	28.7	1,811,796	-44.51
Brunei	75,355	-16.9	657,368	15.38