Coquiero canned tuna brand, owned by Brazil’s Camil Alimentos, has turned to the country’s famous breakfast TV star personality, Ana Maria Braga, to boost sales. The...
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Ex-Minister Escapes Possible 45 Years In US Prison Over Tuna Scam
It appears that the attempt by the US to put Manuel Chang on trial will not be successful. South Africa has decided it will extradite him to Maputo, Mozambique, to be tried on the...
CVS Drops Lawsuit Against Chicken Of The Sea On Price Fixing
Chicken of the Sea and CVS have inked a deal releasing the tuna company from a lawsuit filed against it for conspiring with rivals to fix the prices of canned tuna. The terms of the...
Little Movement In Japan’s Q1 Canned Tuna Imports
Japan’s imports of canned tuna in the first quarter of 2019 have seen a minuscule increase of 0.2 percent in comparison with the same period in the previous year. The countries that...
Chinese Loins Take Bite Out Of Ecuador’s EU Business
Ecuador is still in the top position as the biggest exporting nation for frozen pre-cooked tuna loins to the European Union (EU) in 2018. Although their exports dropped 19 percent from 51,940...
Maruha Nichiro Profits Hit By Tuna Prices
World’s largest seafood company, Maruha Nichiro Corporation, reported its consolidated financials for the fiscal year ending in March 2019. The Japan-based business operating income...
Tuna Business At PLMA Amsterdam 21-22 May
The “World of Private Label” international trade show in Amsterdam starts today. Over the next two days, retailers, wholesalers, and private label professionals...
Sharp Drop In Q1 Fresh Tuna Imports Into Japan
Japan’s imports of whole round (WR) fresh tuna have dramatically decreased in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the previous two years. The country only imported 10,103 M/T of fresh...
Alliance Select Reports Loss In Q1, Investors Drop Shares
Alliance Select Food International, based in the Philippines, published its first-quarter figures of 2019 on May 17, reporting a net loss of USD 100,000. In 2018, the total profit was USD...
Ecuador Secures Zero Duty In Case Of A Brexit
Ecuador has signed a new trade agreement with the UK that allows 95% of Ecuadorian products including tuna to arrive in the country without import duties. This is at the...
Vietnam Reaped Slight Benefit From US-China Trade War In Q4 2018
The latest trade data shows that the Vietnamese tuna industry benefited slightly from the tariffs that the Trump administration imposed on US imports of Chinese tuna products. After a...
Saupiquet Declares Traceability Tuna For Consumers
Canned tuna brand, Saupiquet, has promised to not only have controlled traceability of its tuna but that the fish is 100 percent caught by French boats. The company launched the natural...
Emerging Monopoly On Tin Plate For Canning Blocked By EU?
The merger between Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp will probably be blocked by the EU commission. The joint venture – creating EU's second-largest steel producer – could harm the competition and...
Increased Production Of “Tunagu” Closed-Cycle Bluefin Tuna
Well-known Japanese seafood business, Kyokuyo Co., will be increasing its production of closed-cycle Bluefin tuna. The company is planning to expand its current production of 150 M/T of...
The Solomon Islands Put Yellowfin On New $5 Note
On May 2, UN World Tuna Day, the Central Bank of Solomon Islands released a new five dollar (USD 0,60) banknote. The face features a yellowfin tuna and a fishing hook -- expressing the...
Readers: Tuna-like Species And Skipjack Should Have Same Duty
On April 29, Atuna asked our readers their opinion if tuna-like species imported into the US should have the same duty as other chunk light species such as skipjack. The...
Atuna Poll: What Effect Will US Tariffs On China Have On Chunk Light Prices?
On May 10, Atuna reported about the US’s newly imposed tariffs for Chinese tuna import. As a major exporter of tuna to the US, this will affect China. There is a chance US companies...
High Yield Catch In Eastern WCPO Makes SKJ1.8:BKK Fall
Over the past 1 ½ weeks, prices have continued to decline for whole round frozen skipjack unloaded in Bangkok. They dropped from USD 1,500 per M/T to USD 1,400 per M/T. This 6.6%...
Century Pacific Profits Grows In Q1 2019
Philippine’s top tuna canner, Century Pacific, is continuing with its winning streak from last year. The company’s gross profit grew by 9 percent in the first quarter of this year. Its profits...
Marfrío Launches New Tuna Products At Seafood Expo Global
One of the biggest players in Spain’s frozen seafood sector, Marfrío, has expanded its range of tuna-based products. The new products and packages were presented during the Seafood Expo...