After 14 years of the country's only tuna processing plant not being utilized, Vanuatu's Fisheries Minister has now made the hard promise that the facility will be operational by October of...
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Crusoé Foods Wants To Expand Facilities in Brazil
Crusoé Foods, a Spanish company located on the northern coast of the Brazilian state of Ceará in São Gonçalo do Amarante, wants to maintain the agreements made with the...
Spanish Tuna Sector Passes DG Sante’s Latest Inquiry
The Spanish tuna industry has passed the latest audit by the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante) of the EU. The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition...
Marukei Katsuobushi To Start Tuna Extraction Plant In Galicia
The Japanese fishing company, Marukei Katsuobushi Inc., is expanding to Galicia with a 1,170 square meter tuna processing plant. The facilities will be located...
Bolivia Considering To Build Tuna Plant
Landlocked Bolivia continues to claim rights to tuna fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) and the Atlantic Ocean (AO). The nation even intends to build a tuna processing plant...
New Tuna Cannery For Century Pacific In 2019
Business is going well for Philippines-based cannery, Century Pacific Food Inc. The company has set aside PHP 2 billion (USD 39.1 million) as capital expenditures (capex) of which half will be...
Solomon Cannery Opposes Increasing Minimum Hourly Wage To US$1
Some businesses in the Solomon Islands are unhappy with their government’s proposal of doubling the minimum wage for workers from USD 0.50 to USD 1 an hour. The...
Peruvian Canners Determined To Steer Exports To USD 100 Million
Peru expects to close 2019 with USD 50 million worth of tuna exports, said Alfonzo Miranda Eyzaguirre, President of the Peruvian Tuna Chamber (CPA). He pointed out that Peru has the...
Balfegó To Rebuild Its Plant After Last Year’s Fire
Spanish bluefin tuna company Balfegó is planning to invest EUR 16 million (USD 17,9 million) to construct a new processing facility after a fire in 2018 destroyed its...
Call For Peruvian Tuna Canning For Domestic Consumption
In a newspaper column, the President of National Fisheries Society, Cayetana Aljovín, made a call for the improvement and diversification of Peru’s tuna industry. In the...
Frabelle’s Tiu Laurel: If We Get Rebate We Will Run Full Capacity
The plants from Philipinne firm Frabelle and Majestic Seafood in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are back to processing tuna and are currently at...
Guinness Book Record Set On Slicing A Whole Bluefin
To set a new Guinness Book record, Masaharu Morimoto needed to slice a 200-pound tuna into 100 pieces of 3.5 ounces each in less than 25 minutes. The record-breaking attempt was held...
EU Processors Strongly Expand Their Internal Business
Buyers within the European Union (EU) have been steadily increasing their buying of canned tuna over the past three years – from 2016-2018. Figures show that 573,312 M/T of the product was...
Callipo Conserve 2018 Sales Show Firm Growth
Italian tuna and seafood processor Callipo Conserve Alimentari closed 2018 with a turnover of over EUR 57.3 million, which represented an impressive 10 percent increase compared to...
SolTuna Taking Action Against Copycats Of Solomon Blue Label
In the Solomon Islands, the local tuna canner, SolTuna (owned by Tri-Marine Group) is taking action against companies copying its Solomon Blue design and label. Solomons High Commissioner...
Maldives Leading Tuna Processors Victims Of Theft
The recent high-scale thefts from tuna processing companies, which took place in the Maldivian Malé region have reached a value of MVR 5 million (USD 325,000). Tuna...
GrupoMar Invests Ten Million Dollars In New EZO Factory
In July this year, GrupoMar will start building a new factory to fabricate easy-to-open lids (EZO) for tuna cans. Antonio Suarez Gutierrez, Director of Grupomar, responded on several...
The Fish Group Buys Chinese Tuna Processing Plant
Singapore-based seafood processor, The Fish Group, has bought a processing plant in Zhoushan, China for tuna. Zhoushan is located at the northeastern Zhejiang province in eastern...
Costa Rica Ranked 4th In Tuna Consumption Per Capita
Costa Ricans love tuna so much that they consume 2.5 kilograms of tuna, per person, per year, making them the fourth largest per capita consumer of tuna in the world, according to a...
Will PBN Become The New Tuna Powerhouse Of Indonesia?
Indonesian processor PT. Pahala Bahari Nusantara (PBN) announced in its press release the expansion of their product range with food service tuna pouches. Since...