Uyen Vien and Thai Hang
Australia's live cattle are offl oaded from Ocean Swagman vessel for delivery to Thuy Ha's farms on Tuesday - Photo: Uyen Vien
The Australian Trade Commission yesterday also confirmed to the Daily that the rumor is baseless and live cattle shipments are still coming to Vietnam.
Over the past two days, the cargo vessel Ocean Swagman has been docking at Lotus Port in HCMC’s District 7 to deliver over 5,000 head of cattle to Thuy Ha, which will then sell the cows to major slaughterhouses in Vietnam.
Luu Son Thuy, director of Thuy Ha, told the Daily that his company since June has imported 30,000 cows from Australia. Thuy Ha is one of three local importers of live cattle from Australia.
Thuy said the cattle after being imported will be isolated for one to two weeks for veterinary officers to conduct hygiene and disease tests, and if all cattle are confirmed heathy, they will be distributed to slaughterhouses.
Thuy Ha currently has three farms capable of accommodating 15,000 cattle under standards dictated by Australian suppliers.
Each day, the company supplies an average 350 cows to slaughterhouses in the southern region.
Van Duc Muoi, general director of meat processor Vissan as a key buyer of live cattle from Thuy Ha, said his slaughterhouse buys around 40 Australian cows each day on average.
Muoi said since October, his company has revised up cow meat twice by 2-3% only, but he stopped short of attributing the price hike to scarcity. However, he asserted that Australian suppliers have pledged stable supplies of live cattle for Vietnam and prices will be kept unchanged.
Meanwhile, the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) yesterday asserted that a slight fall in supplies of live cattle from Australia to Vietnam is due to weather conditions, not intervention from the Australian Government.
“Australia has not temporarily stopped providing live cattle to Vietnam. To the contrary, Australian suppliers are continuing to support the growth of the Vietnamese market for live cattle,” Austrade said in an email sent to the Daily.
The agency said exporters have on-going shipments arriving in December and January. However, Austrade said there is a seasonal influence caused by the wet season between December and March when supply may fall due to rain and flooding.
Austrade expects around 60,000 Australian cattle will be exported to Vietnam this year compared to over 42,000 this year to date.
Đăng ký: VietNam News