A Thai tuna factory selling tuna steaks in retail boxes wants to work alongside its customers to feed the poor. The company, Tuna Paradise, sells ten-pound boxes (4.5 kg) of tuna to...
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American Senator Receives His Tuna Lunch By Drone
American Senator, Mark Warner, was amazed when Wings delivered him a can of tuna by drone at his visit to the company's site in Christiansburg, Virginia, last Friday. The company created an...
Thai Pet Food Sales In US Take Off
Thai processors managed to grow their pet food business globally in the first six months of the year and delivered nearly one-quarter more canned products than during the same period last...
Ecuadorian Tuna Sector Upset Over Mexican President’s Remarks
Trade agreement discussions between Mexico and Ecuador have been a protracted affair with both nations not seeing eye to eye on canned tuna imports. The recent claims by the Mexican President...
Ecuador Doubles Its H1 Shipments To Spain
Spanish imports of canned and pouched tuna in the first half of 2022 increased to the second highest volume in five years. Business with Ecuadorian processors doubled, bringing it back to...
President Asks Mexican Tuna Tycoons Not To Raise Consumer Prices
CEOs of Mexico's major tuna processors, as well as heads of other food companies, were invited by the country's president for lunch at the National Palace this week to discuss the increasing...
Controversial Dismissal Of PNA’s Long-Serving Commercial Manager Brownjohn
The long-serving Commercial Manager of the PNA Office, Maurice Brownjohn, has been let go from his role in what he considers a very “disappointing” treatment of him. The office is based in the...
Cost Of Steel Cans To Drop, 10 Percent Capacity Offline
Recently, tin and steel prices have dropped dramatically due to weakening global demand for steel. It is a welcome relief to the canned tuna sector which has been facing rising costs for...
Smaller Suppliers Sold EUR 53 Million More Canned Tuna To EU In H1
Smaller suppliers around the world managed to largely expand their canned tuna business with EU markets by 17 percent or EUR 53 million in the first half of this year. These processors fall...
Rebounding Tourism Strongly Spurs Spanish & Italian H1 Overseas Sourcing
Canned tuna imports into the EU strongly recovered in the first six months of the year, and most of the product was headed to Mediterranean nations Italy, France, and Spain. With pandemic...
EU Buyers Import EUR 1.4 Billion In H1, Sharp Drop In Philippines Supply
EU retailers and traders imported more canned tuna in the first half of this year compared to 2021. However, they cut back on their purchases from PNG and the Philippines due to sufficient...
Bumble Bee Steps Away From Good Catch Plant-Based Adventure
American plant-based food brand, Wicked Foods, has taken over the Good Catch distribution and sales in the US from Bumble Bee, which has stepped out of the joint venture partnership with the...
Pacific Leaders Want More Consumption From Domestic Canneries, While Imports Grow Explosively
Pacific Island nations have the world's largest tuna resource and still, their import of canned tuna from Thailand sharply increased in the first half of this year, amounting to USD 10...
How Tonga Got Its Fresh Tuna Shipments Back On Track
Tonga-based Pacific Sunrise Fishing's six longliner boats were washed out to sea after an erupting volcano triggered a tsunami but what hurt the company's fresh tuna business the most was...
Poll: Will Tuna Be Traded With Digital Currency In The Future?
Digital currencies are being used all over the world by various industries. The idea of using cryptocurrency in the global tuna sector has not taken off although some ideas are being launched....
Readers: Inflation Will Boost Tuna Sales
Now inflation becomes more being felt, especially for lower-income households, Atuna dropped the question to its readers whether that will stimulate canned tuna sales in their markets. Around...
Philippine Adjudicator Gets Prison Term For Tuna Extortion
Ex-provincial agrarian reform adjudicator, Henry Gelacio, was convicted of extorting cash and tuna from litigants 15 years ago. The former employee of the Philippine Department of Agrarian...
CEO Guilty Of All Offenses With “Frankenstein Helicopters”
A US Court found John Walker guilty of 110 charges related to his tuna spotting helicopter business. The Hansen Helicopters' CEO was tried for defrauding the FAA and National Transportation...
Gomes Da Costa Launches Tuna With 81% Reduced Sodium
The new and improved Gomes da Costa Low-Sodium line is now being relaunched with a reduction of up to 81 percent sodium content in its solid oil-packed and in water canned tuna. The range is...
US Sushi Restaurant Says Insurer Must Cover White Tuna Fraud Claims
A sushi restaurant in Chicago has asked a federal court in Illinois to dismiss its underwriter, Society Insurance’s motion to avoid coverage of a class action suit. The eatery is accused of...