Vietnam’s maritime sector is striving to upgrade its international merchant fleet in order to reduce the country’s dependency on foreign-owned vessels in export-import activities.

Soaring inflation, rising production costs and fluctuation in exchange rates have caused great difficulties for production and import-export activities, and will linger on to the rest of the year.

Seven enterprises were assigned tariff quotas with a total volume of 109,000 tonnes at a recent sugar import auction organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

VOV.VN - The nation spent approximately US$153.6 million on importing 7,914 completely built units (CBU) cars in the first half of September.

VOV.VN - The 10th version of the Zhejiang Export Fair in Vietnam is scheduled to take place at the International Centre for Exhibition in Hanoi from September 28 to September 30, featuring the participation of over 100 businesses from the Chinese province.

There are great business opportunities for Vietnamese pepper exporters in the United Kingdom - a lucrative market with high demand for pepper imports.

VOV.VN - A delegation of the Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee led by deputy secretary Nguyen Hoang Thao made a working trip to India on September 24-25.

VOV.VN - Vietnam spent over US$1.02 billion on importing 2.19 million tonnes of fertiliser during the initial eight months of the year, a decline of roughly 30.9% in volume but up 12.2% in value from 2021.

Increasing domestic supply of raw materials is among the highest priorities for the development of Vietnam’s livestock feed industry in the future, said policymakers and industry experts.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is an important partner of the United Nations and has made many substantial and effective contributions to UN peacekeeping operations, affirmed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.