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Mar 23, 2020 (newstodate): The Republic of China on Taiwan is increasingly becoming a promising market for Norway's exporters of fresh salmon.
   In the latest statistics covering the first 11 weeks of this year, the Taiwanese market has been rising by 42 percent, y-o-y, to 2,884 tonnes, which by comparison even overtook the volumes exported to Mainland China that landed at 2,550 tonnes during the period after dropping almost 50 percent, y-o-y.
   In week 11 alone, Taiwan imported 396 tonnes of Norwegian salmon, up 37.6 percent - while China's import was still 37 percent below 2019, totalling 217 tonnes.  
   -The positive development in the volumes exported to Taiwan is boosted by a satisfactory availability of air cargo space as well as the provision in the Norwegian market of the type of salmon preferred by the Taiwanese consumers, says Asbjorn Warvik Rortveit, Norwegian Seafood Council Director South-East Asia.
   -The development in the Taiwanese market is remarkable as the country's tourism industry has been suffering during this period, while it seems that Taiwan has been good at constraining the spread of the coronavirus, says Mr Rortveit.