Established in 1998 in Afumati, 14 kilometers from the capital Bucharest, Romania’s largest importer and processor, Ocean Fish, now buys three to four trucks of salmon from Norway, Chile and the Faroe Islands every week, Alexandru Gurduza, import manager Europe at Ocean Fish, told IntraFish.
It is expected that turnover will jump around 65 percent from €34 million last year to exceed €50 million this year, he said.
Much of it is down to a change in the country’s VAT rate from 24 to 9 percent – a move aimed at cracking down on black-market trade, Gurduza said, but demand is growing nevertheless.
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