Mexico plans to impose a huge USD 472 million sanction against the US, following the long-running dispute between the two nations over the US’ discrimination of Mexican canned tuna, seeking...
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The Market With 30+ Tuna Brands And Rocketing Sales
Shoppers in Costa Rica are spoilt for choice when it comes to putting canned tuna in their basket, and remain the fourth highest per capita tuna consumers in the world. While most national...
Skipjack Price Jumps Again On Slow Supply
Poor catching in WCPO fishing grounds is ultimately causing low whole round skipjack supply in the Bangkok market place, as price takes another leap. Now at USD 1,500 per ton (frozen whole...
Eastern EU Markets Continue Showing Growth
During a year in which overall European imports of canned tuna dropped by five percent, Eastern European nations bucked the trend, and as a region was the only area in the EU to see continued...
Century Getting A Slice Of Other Asian Markets
An outright leader in its domestic tuna market, Century Pacific Group is working on forward integration, with the aim of breaking into other Asian markets. While its main focus has always been...
Can Calvo Help Make Consorcio An Italian Market Leader?
Spanish canner Grupo Consorcio has renewed its Italian distribution agreement with Calvo until 2020, a deal which it believes provides a strong platform for its Consorcio brand to take a...
Thai Union’s Amazing Stock Recovery
Thai Union is back in the game, and following several months of coasting at a far lower level, share value has now rocketed to a one-year high. Investors are trading fast, and on several days...
The Only Major Player To See Strong US Growth
In a year in which US buyers showed a declining appetite for imported canned tuna, there was only one major supplier that managed significant growth in this large market in 2015. Not only did...
Registration Underway For Tuna 2016 Bangkok
It’s now only two months until the tuna industry’s biggest event, the INFOFISH World Tuna Trade Conference & Exhibition (Tuna 2016) comes back to Bangkok this year, taking the central...
The Ins And Outs Of The EU IUU Carding Process
Recent headlines have been strewn with reports of the progress being made by third nations currently carded by the EU, including important tuna suppliers like Thailand and Sri Lanka, but...
Manta SKJ Price Following Bangkok
Scarce whole round skipjack supply in Ecuador, which is said to have heavily impacted the national seiner fleet, is sending the Manta market price following in the tracks of Bangkok, which...
Wicked Tuna: Top TV Show Now Tuna Brand
Wicked Tuna, the hit TV show from National Geographic which averages 1.1 million viewers an episode, is now the title name of a range of frozen tuna products hitting the US market, launched in...
Do You Think Tuna RFMOs Are Dominated By “White People”?
In a controversial statement earlier this week, tuna RFMOs have been accused of providing a platform for racial prejudice by the President of Taiwan’s Tuna Association of longliners, who...
The Premium Price Thai Packers Pay For MSC Skipjack
Despite a large amount of pole and line canned tuna still being sold without the MSC logo in the global marketplace, there is increasing emergence of retailers making commitments to bring more...
Vietnam Reliant On Imports To Feed Local Demand
An official of the Vietnam Tuna Association has disclosed that 5,000 M/T of whole round tuna is imported by Vietnam just to meet local consumption demand every year. Chairman of the...
Red Card Sends Tuna Exports Tumbling
Following a ban imposed in early 2015 by the EU as a result of alleged rampant IUU fishing in the nation’s waters, Sri Lanka’s seafood exports have declined by more than a third over the last...
The Full Extent Of Ecuador’s Lost Business
Concern was raised throughout 2015 as Ecuadorian packers felt their dominant EU market share start slipping through their fingers, with deliveries from the nation falling at a time when they...
No Stopping Bangkok Skipjack Price Rise
Various mounting factors are having a resounding impact on the Bangkok whole round skipjack market, with small deals now being finalized at yet another price rise. Deals have now been...
Thai Union Eyes Up More Takeovers In Europe
Planning to squeeze in at least two overseas acquisitions before the close of the year, Thai Union says it has “firepower” for more takeovers in Europe, and believes that by snapping up stakes...
Top Tuna Players At The Boston Seafood Expo
Day two of the North America Seafood Expo kicked off this morning in Boston featuring more than 1,000 seafood exhibiting companies from over 40 different countries around the globe, set to...