Indonesia To Boost Volume Of Pre-cooked Tuna Loins To Iranff
8 January 2010
Indonesia
Source: Jakarta Post
Indonesia’s ministry’s director of foreign marketing Saut P. Hutagalung Saut was in Iran last week to make an agreement to export a targeted 2,000 tons of pre-cooked tuna loins in 2010.
“Indonesian exporters and Iranian importers have agreed on the quality and prices of the products that are to be exported. Iran is ready to import with that target,†he told The Jakarta Post, adding Indonesia would start exporting this month.
He said fisheries exports to Iran were valued at $1 million in 2008, up from around $260,000 in 2007 and $120,000 in 2006.
The planned exports would boost next year’s total export volume and increase the total fisheries workforce, Saut said.
“Manufacturing industry in the country will also improve,†he added.
Export market expansion to the Middle East and Central Asia will be backed by the readiness of Indonesian exporters to export products that meet required standards of quality.
“Indonesia also has good political and economic relationships with [countries in the Middle East and Central Asia],†he added.
However, Saut said that there were also challenges in exporting to these countries.
Iran, for example, “is being sanctioned by the US for it nuclear program, which makes it difficult to use letters of credit as a means of payment,†he said.
“The other alternatives [for payment] would be to use telegraphic transfer or counter trade,†he added.
