The PAFCO cannery has celebrated 50 years in the business, after its operations kick-started in 1964. Processing tuna caught from its home fishing grounds of the WCPO, the Levuka, Fiji based...
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Greenpeace Protest At Opening New Bumble Bee HQ
With placards in hand, Greenpeace activists gave the new Bumble Bee Headquarters in San Diego a not so warm welcome, as protestors attacked the company over sustainability claims. Going back...
Spanish Canners See Volume Drop Further
Spanish canners have been hit with two consecutive disappointing years, as production volume for the sector dropped 1.5 percent in 2013. According to an Anfaco report, coupled with a 3.1...
Bumble Bee Considering To Process In Samoa
Bumble Bee Foods is thinking of spreading its wings and establishing a tuna loin processing plant in the independent state of Samoa. Representatives from the company visited the island twice...
Century Projects To Double Profits In 2014
Financial forecasters expect to see the Philippines largest canned tuna company, Century Pacific, soar this year, doubling its net income to more than USD 26 million. This is up significantly...
Ecuador Expands Dominance Across EU Regions
Ecuador has displayed significant export growth across all EU regional groups, considerably upping its shipments of canned tuna throughout the entire community from 2012 to 2013. As Central...
World’s Largest Fishmeal Industry Loses Millions
The global fishmeal industry is facing tough times, with the largest producing country, Peru, losing more than USD 87 million in the sector last year. Only two out of twelve Peruvian companies...
TUF’s Launches New TV Ad Campaign
Promoting “The Wonder of Deep-Sea Tuna, Freshness You Can Enjoy Everyday”, Thai Union, the world’s largest canned tuna producing company has launched a humorous new television ad, where tuna...
Century Builds New Can Making Facility
The Philippines’ canned tuna near monopolist, Century Pacific Foods, is aiming to expand its production by building a new can making facility. Homed in General Santos City, the new...
Bumble Bee Going Back To Its Roots
Bumble Bee Seafoods is stepping more than 30 years back in time, returning to its San Diego roots. The North American seafood company, owner of one of America’s big three tuna brands is moving...
Australian Tuna Canner Doubles Output
Australia’s Port Lincoln Tuna Processors is set to double its production in the coming months as focus is put on expanding its product range. Reducing canned tuna production, the company will...
Can Lower Raw Material Accelerate TUF Sales?
With raw material tuna having dropped as low as to USD 1,180 per ton of skipjack on the Bangkok market, analysts are very upbeat and say that Thai Union’s 2014 is looking brighter. In their...
COS Mermaid Finally Got A Name
Catalina is the chosen name for the blond mermaid mascot that has appeared on the labels of Chicken of the Sea tuna cans for sixty years. As many as 49,000 entries were issued for the naming...
ASK ATUNA: How Do I Maximize The Drained Weight In My Canned Production?
Ask Atuna… If you have a question about any aspect of the tuna industry, we’d be pleased to hear it. Our team will regularly select one of your submitted questions to answer in detail in the...
Century Pacific Announces IPO Range Price
Century Pacific Food Inc., the Philippines monopolist in the canned tuna segment, has narrowed the indicative selling price for its initial public offering (IPO). In a public notice, the...
US 2014 Single Duty Quota Division Announced
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced the calendar year 2014 tariff-rate quota quantity for tuna fish in airtight containers (canned tuna) classifiable under HTSUS 1604.14.22. This...
The Mega Tuna Market That Few Know About
It’s a tuna market that not many know of, and it’s positively booming. The Arab world is collectively importing far more Thai canned tuna than any other global market, with the European Union...
Tourist Tour Of Tuna Canning Industry
Tourists in A Coruña, a Galician city in Spain, will have the opportunity to take guided tours of the region's tuna canning industry. The history of the business will be explained on the route...
Thailand A Threat To Spanish Canners?
Competition appears to be rife between Spanish and Thai canners exporting to the European Union, but is this really the case? While Thailand holds the position of the largest producing and...
Higher Prices Bite Spanish Canned Exports
Spanish canned tuna exporters saw higher prices taking a bite out of their volumes last year. The quantity of canned tuna exported from the Mediterranean country saw a significant slump from...