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Norway salmon exports — destinations and trade flow
Where Norway's Atlantic salmon ships. Monthly volumes by partner country, market concentration, and headline movers — refreshed each time customs statistics publish.
Latest month · May 2026
Latest available customs month (SSB table 14720). Per-country trade publishes in arrears — around the middle of the following month — so the latest available month trails the weekly export price by several weeks. Month-over-month compares with April 2026.
Norway shipped Atlantic salmon to 79 partner countries in May 2026. The three largest buyers were Poland, China, Spain, together accounting for 32.9% of the month's volume.
Market concentration (HHI, annual): 602.9 in 2025 — unconcentrated. Top destination Poland held 14.9% of annual volume across 110 partners.
The Herfindahl–Hirschman Index sums the squared market shares of every destination (scale 0–10,000): higher means exports lean on fewer markets, lower means demand is spread broadly. Standard DOJ/FTC bands — below 1,500 unconcentrated, 1,500–2,500 moderate, above 2,500 highly concentrated.
Top 10 destinations · May 2026
| Rank | Country | Volume (t) | $/kg | Share | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poland | 18,136 | $7.74 | 16.5% | +18.3% |
| 2 | China | 9,688 | $8.45 | 8.8% | -6.6% |
| 3 | Spain | 8,387 | $8.56 | 7.6% | +4.1% |
| 4 | France | 8,215 | $8.52 | 7.5% | +11.3% |
| 5 | Netherlands | 7,954 | $7.95 | 7.2% | +0.9% |
| 6 | Italy | 6,071 | $7.93 | 5.5% | +6.7% |
| 7 | United States of America | 5,255 | $13.28 | 4.8% | +11.0% |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 5,036 | $9.08 | 4.6% | +3.5% |
| 9 | Denmark | 4,446 | $7.91 | 4.0% | +4.1% |
| 10 | Germany | 3,526 | $9.17 | 3.2% | +0.6% |
$/kg is the implied unit value (USD value ÷ volume) per destination — a customs-valuation average across the salmon commodity group, not the weekly fresh/chilled benchmark. Download the full month: CSV · JSON.
All destinations · May 2026
Poland · China · Spain · France · Netherlands · Italy · United States of America · United Kingdom · Denmark · Germany · Sweden · Lithuania · South Korea · Thailand · Ukraine · Finland · Taiwan · Japan · Viet Nam · Belgium · Hong Kong · Portugal · Latvia · Israel · Türkiye · Czechia · United Arab Emirates · Saudi Arabia · Greece · Georgia · Canada · Singapore · Philippines · Estonia · Ireland · Egypt · Romania · Kazakhstan · South Africa · Morocco · Switzerland · Russia · Malaysia · Australia · Uzbekistan · Bulgaria · Qatar · Austria · Kuwait · Indonesia · India · Serbia · Moldova · Azerbaijan · Jordan · Bahrain · New Zealand · Mexico · Lebanon · Bahamas · Cyprus · Kenya · Dominica · Tunisia · Armenia · Colombia · Mauritius · Oman · Luxembourg · Guam · Nigeria · Uganda · Zimbabwe · Pakistan · Macao · Slovakia · Ghana · Maldives · Rwanda
Notable movers
- 5-year breakout — China: +249.5% · 9,688 t · $81.9M · vs 2021 (5y) · last full year 2025
- Month-over-month gainer — Belgium: +22.2% · 1,341 t · $12.9M · vs 2026-04 (MoM)
- Month-over-month decliner — Japan: -17.4% · 1,393 t · $14.9M · vs 2026-04 (MoM)
Biggest movers · May 2026
| Country | Volume (t) | MoM |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1,341 | +22.2% |
| Poland | 18,136 | +18.3% |
| Lithuania | 3,006 | +17.7% |
| Japan | 1,393 | -17.4% |
| Finland | 1,556 | +15.2% |
The five largest month-over-month volume swings among partners above 1,000 t in May 2026, ranked by absolute % change vs April 2026.
About this trade data
Volumes reflect the first customs destination, not the final consumer market. Several top partners are re-export hubs rather than terminal buyers: Polish processors fillet and smoke whole Norwegian salmon and ship it onward, mostly to Germany; the Netherlands and Lithuania play similar EU logistics roles; Denmark to a lesser degree. Shipped-to figures for those countries therefore overstate local demand and undercount the true downstream markets. On the live dashboard these hubs carry a re-export marker; the reattribution is a directional estimate drawn from trade-press and Eurostat re-export accounting, not a primary customs feed.
Monthly destination figures come from SSB’s salmon commodity group (table 14720), spanning fresh, frozen, and fillet salmon (HS 0302 / 0303 / 0304). That is a broader basket than the weekly farmed-salmon price series (table 03024), so monthly destination tonnage and the weekly headline price are not directly comparable.
Source: SSB (Statistics Norway) · Norges Bank