The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Santiago Cafiero, and the Ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, met this Friday with authorities from the Argentine Federal Shrimp Association (ALFA), with those who analyzed the projections for this year regarding seafood exports, the reopening of the Brazilian market and the participation in commercial missions that will take place during 2023.
Argentina is the fifth world exporter of frozen shrimp and prawns and, during the first eleven months of 2022, the sector’s sales abroad amounted to US$ 875 million, with Brazil as the main destination (28%).
Next in importance were the markets that make up the rest of Mercosur (24%), the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean (17%), the United States and Canada (18%) and the European Union (12%).
“From the reopening of the market in Brazil for the export of shrimps, we can see that a large part of the economic activity continues to move. Companies and entrepreneurs bet on the construction of new ships to supply this market, which is very powerful,” Cafiero said during the meeting, which took place at ALFA’s headquarters, in the city of Mar del Plata.
Ambassador Scioli, for his part, stated that “The fishing sector is the most important economic activity in Mar del Plata” and that, thanks to the work together with the Foreign Ministry, “it was possible to reopen the Brazilian market after 9 years.”
In that sense, The Argentine Embassy in Brazil has been carrying out intense work with shrimp companies to consolidate and expand the exportable offer and sales to the Brazilian market.
The head of ALFA, Mariano Retrivi, highlighted the management of the Foreign Ministry and the embassy for the opening of the shrimp market to Brazil and business rounds “that allowed us to sell more products.”
ALFA brings together the Buenos Aires fishing boats that operate on shrimp and forms a fishing industry chamber made up of 23 companies with more than 47 boatswhile shrimp fishing in Buenos Aires is concentrated in Mar del Plata and Bahía Blanca, with a total of 200 thousand tons per year.
Increasing exports is generating more work for Argentines and Argentines ????
In Mar del Plata with @danielscioli we met with the Argentine Federal Shrimp Association. The reopening of the Brazilian market for exports strengthened SMEs in the region. pic.twitter.com/MjTSadT7Y3
– Santiago Cafiero (@SantiagoCafiero) January 6, 2023
Mar del Plata has the main fishing port of the countrythe largest industrial and logistics support network, and the main port for navigation services, with 40% of the total number of fishing vessels in the country and 47% of the total crew employed.
It is the first port in importance in terms of unloading of maritime catches and Approximately 60% of the country’s processing and refrigeration plants are located in the city.
