Tuna For California Shipped Via Port San Antonioff

Source: San Antonio Business Journal

Operational Technologies Corp. (OpTech), at Port San Antonio, will accept a shipment of 250 tons of canned tuna from Thailand and China later this month.

OpTech will be utilizing the port’s Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ #10-80) to accept the tuna shipment on behalf of its client, an international importer based out of California. OpTech would not disclose the importer’s name. Customers use FTZs to accept and store international shipments before they are tested, labeled and packaged for distribution. FTZs allow products be held in the zone without being subject to import duties or other ad valorem taxes.

OpTech is a tenant at Port San Antonio, a master-planned logistics center built on the former Kelly Air Force Base. The entire site is a FTZ for which all tenants can activate for business purposes.

Port San Antonio Business Development Vice President Jorge Canavati worked three years finalizing the deal for Port San Antonio. “This is what Port San Antonio is all about,” says Canavati of the finalization of this contract. “We have the ability to accept shipments from around the world.”

The California customer delivering the shipment specializes in sales of private label products to national distributors, food service distributors and retail grocery chains. The company also supplies many major manufacturers with ingredients such as beef, pork, tuna, pineapple, mushrooms, fruit, vegetables, shellfish and fin fish.