During the first quarter of the year, Maldives’s fish exports recorded a large boost. However, the low pricing of skipjack at the main receiver ports like Bangkok resulted in a...
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Vanuatu Biggest Importer Of SolTuna Cans
Vanuatu is the largest market for canned tuna from the SolTuna plant in Solomon Islands. The Vanuatu National Statistics Office shows that from 2019 to 2020, the country imported 794 M/T of...
Ecuador Loses A Quarter Of Its EU Canned Business In Q1
The big drop in orders from EU buyers during the first three months of 2021 has heavily hit almost all foreign suppliers and of them, Ecuador experienced the largest reduction in terms of...
Readers: In-Person Seafood Events Will Not Happen Until 2022
The majority of our readers are very optimistic that life as it was before the COVID-19 pandemic is on its way back. However, they still believe that in-person seafood events will only take...
EU Buyers Made Drastic Cuts In Their Canned Tuna Orders
The first quarter of this year was marked by a big drop in canned tuna deliveries to the majority of EU markets. This is a continuation of the trend of Q4 2020 when the import demand of this...
EU Alerts: Tuna Transported In Poor Temperatures Destroyed In Spain
A total of four tuna-related alerts were raised with the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in May. They ranged from poor temperature control for frozen shipments to high levels...
Major Crackdown On Colored Tuna In Belgium
Authorities in Belgium are cracking down on fraudulent activity within the tuna sector in the country. The first operation, which took place between September and December of last year,...
Thai Processors Expanding Pet Food Business Across Markets
Last year, during pandemic lockdowns many households across the world decided to get themselves a new pet. Consequently, this resulted in a boom in pet food purchases. Thailand's exports of...
Frinsa Tops Spanish Processors Ranking, Jealsa Takes Second & Third Place
Tuna processing companies in Spain dominate the top positions among seafood firms in terms of sales and turnover. This is according to the latest ranking of canned fish manufacturers recently...
Thai Union Invests In New Pet Food Firm To Regain Japanese Market
Today, Thai Union announced the launching of a new pet food company in Japan named Japan Pet Nutrition. They invested JYP 5 million (USD 45,627) in the enterprise via its subsidiary Songkla...
Record Levels Of Skipjack & Albacore Made Their Way To Bangkok In Q1
During the first quarter of this year, Thailand reported a massive increase in its imports of whole round frozen tuna. This was marked by skipjack landings, however, albacore and bigeye also...
Thai Packers’ Raw Material Intake At 5-Year High
Processing plants in Thailand imported greater quantities of raw material during Q1 2021. This might be a move to stock up their inventories after the high demand for canned tuna experienced...
Will Any Seafood In-Person Events Take Place In 2021?
Just like last year, COVID-19 is continuing to cause headaches for seafood event producers. On Wednesday, Diversified Communications said that the Seafood Expo Global 2021 gathering will be...
Readers Confident That Canned Tuna Sales Will Recover
Canned tuna sales have slightly declined during the first months of 2021. Last year was marked by very high purchases driven by the pandemic lockdowns which resulted in panic buying large...
Thai Canneries Lose A Quarter Of Business With US Tuna Buyers In Q1
The exports from the world’s leading canned tuna processing nation dropped during the first quarter of 2021. Thailand’s canneries were not able to maintain the exceptional shipments of last...
Global Food Prices Racing Upward, Vegetable Oils Sky High
Global food commodity prices have been bullish for almost a year now and are expected to continue to increase. The trend started almost at the same time the pandemic hit major markets like the...
E-Monitoring Standards To Reach Spanish Industry By End Of The Year
Minimum standards for the implementation and use of e-monitoring (EM) on board fishing vessels are currently being developed in Spain. This is one of the issues Gabriel Gomez, Managing...
Tuna Businesses Could Lose Out From Online Buying Consumer Behavior
Tuna businesses have to invest in online retail as that is the growing trend in customer buying behavior, according to expert, Vaughan Ryan, the Managing Director for Asia-Pacific (APAC) in...
New Stand-up John West Tuna Pouches On Dutch Shelves
John West has modified the layout of its Dutch Tuna Twist assortment. The product now comes packed in a stand-up pouch and the packaging has changed from glossy to matte. A new tuna flavor,...
Infofish Conference: Private Labels & E-Commerce Big Winners On Tuna
The World Tuna Conference that usually takes place in Bangkok has kicked off virtually after last year’s forced pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Infofish, the organizer, has put together...