Head of the Directorate of Fisheries' Science, Technology and International Co-operation Department Nguyen Viet Manhsaid that they were coordinating with the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Export and Import Department, and Vietnamese Trade Office in Belgium to work with the trade agencies in Belgium's Flanders and Zeebrugge areas and a number of Belgium companies to establish the distribution centre.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) and Belgium's Zeebrugge Port late last year had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on establishing the centre.

Under the MoU, a centre will be built at Zeebrugge Port to receive, auction, and distribute Vietnamese tra products throughout the EU. The port's location between France's Le Havre and Germany's Hamburg makes it one of the European market's leading seafood distribution centre.