January reshuffle among Norway’s top seafood markets.
Poland was Norway’s largest single seafood market by value in January, followed by China and the Netherlands, according to figures from the Norwegian Seafood Council.
The council’s ranking of the ten largest markets in January by export value, with year-on-year changes in brackets, was as follows:
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Poland: NOK 1.9 billion ($184 million/€167 million) (+55%)
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China: NOK 1.2 billion ($116 million/€106 million) (+8%)
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Netherlands: NOK 943 million ($91 million/€83 million) (+8%)
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United States: NOK 937 million ($91 million/€82 million) (-37%)
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France: NOK 913 million ($89 million/€80 million) (+1%)
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United Kingdom: NOK 849 million ($82 million/€75 million) (+2%)
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Spain: NOK 820 million ($80 million/€72 million) (-4%)
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Denmark: DKK 733 million ($117 million/€95 million) (-11%)
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Italy: NOK 635 million ($62 million/€56 million) (-19%)
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South Korea: NOK 432 million ($42 million/€38 million) (-21%)
“For the first time ever, the export value of salmon to China exceeded NOK 1 billion in a single month, so strong demand is cushioning some of the impact of the US downturn,” said Christian Chramer, chief executive of the Norwegian Seafood Council.
