Thai seafood exports have received minimal impact from the riots in Bangkok with only a small volume of cargoes being delayed at the capital's ports.
The protests that forced the government to announce national holidays for the entire week interrupted export procedures and delayed some shipments, said Panisuan Jamnarnwej, president of the Thai Frozen Foods Association.
As protesters did not block the ports in Bangkok and Laem Chabang in Rayong, exports remained on track although there were some additional transport expenses to avoid traffic gridlock in the inner city.
Agriculture Minister Theera Wongsamut also instructed all government offices to continue providing services for clients during the holidays.
``Thanks to flexible government agencies, they are able to issue necessary documents to certify export products every day,'' he said.
Shipments of seafood products require documents from various government agencies including the departments of Fisheries, the Livestock Development, Customs, and Foreign Trade.
The normal procedure is one day, but some products that need two or three days for laboratory tests from the Fisheries Department will be delayed.
Dr Panisuan said theThe protests that forced the government to announce national holidays for the entire week interrupted export procedures and delayed some shipments, said Panisuan Jamnarnwej, president of the Thai Frozen Foods Association.
As protesters did not block the ports in Bangkok and Laem Chabang in Rayong, exports remained on track although there were some additional transport expenses to avoid traffic gridlock in the inner city.
Agriculture Minister Theera Wongsamut also instructed all government offices to continue providing services for clients during the holidays.
``Thanks to flexible government agencies, they are able to issue necessary documents to certify export products every day,'' he said.
Shipments of seafood products require documents from various government agencies including the departments of Fisheries, the Livestock Development, Customs, and Foreign Trade.
The normal procedure is one day, but some products that need two or three days for laboratory tests from the Fisheries Department will be delayed.
Dr Panisuan said the impact on seafood exports this quarter would be slight.
``More than half of the seafood exporters are located in the South. Those operators in Mahachai in Samut Sakhon could feel the pinch from the current political tension,'' he said.
Normally the second quarter is a slow export season for seafood products. ``The impact would be critical if it happened late in the year,'' he said. ``It's still difficult to forecast export performance this year despite strong sales in the first quarter, especially shrimp.''
In the first three months of this year, Thailand exported frozen shrimp worth US$587 million, a rise of 34% over the same period last year.
The financial crisis in Europe is expected to affect the exports of Thai shrimp to the EU, which imported about 44,000 tonnes of shrimp products, or 11% of the total Thailand's shrimp exports.
Dr Panisuan expects that Thai shrimp shipments will rise by about 5% this year as the outbreak of infectious myonecrosis virus in shrimp farms in Indonesia and Brazil and a lower catch in the United States due to an oil spill off Louisiana benefit Thai producers.
impact on seafood exports this quarter would be slight.
``More than half of the seafood exporters are located in the South. Those operators in Mahachai in Samut Sakhon could feel the pinch from the current political tension,'' he said.
Normally the second quarter is a slow export season for seafood products. ``The impact would be critical if it happened late in the year,'' he said. ``It's still difficult to forecast export performance this year despite strong sales in the first quarter, especially shrimp.''
In the first three months of this year, Thailand exported frozen shrimp worth US$587 million, a rise of 34% over the same period last year.
The financial crisis in Europe is expected to affect the exports of Thai shrimp to the EU, which imported about 44,000 tonnes of shrimp products, or 11% of the total Thailand's shrimp exports.
Dr Panisuan expects that Thai shrimp shipments will rise by about 5% this year as the outbreak of infectious myonecrosis virus in shrimp farms in Indonesia and Brazil and a lower catch in the United States due to an oil spill off Louisiana benefit Thai producers.
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