To keep up with the increased demand for tuna in the country during the first half of this year, US-based canners took in many more frozen pre-cooked loins, especially from Thailand.
Exporting...
The imports of frozen tuna raw material in Thailand continued its decline in the third quarter of 2019 (Q3) and the figures showed an overall depression year-on-year.
The total volume of frozen tuna...
During the first half of 2019, buyers' interest in Thai canned tuna grew four percent year-on-year, to a total volume of 247,979 M/T. However, primarily as the result of the low raw material prices...
For a second year in a row, Chinese suppliers secured their position as the leading source of frozen pre-cooked loins to the United States at 18,109 M/T in 2018. Despite the decline in overall...
American buyers' demand for bonito declined in the first quarter of this year (Q1). This continues last year's trend when after a considerable peak in 2018, the inflow of shipments for this period...
The expansion of Ecuador's exports to the EU has been at the expense of multiple origins - some major supplying nations but also some smaller volume exporters lost business. In 2019, 640,429 M/T was...
USAID Oceans, along with a Philippines-based technology provider, will equip small-scale pole and line Filipino fisheries with transmitters to track their tuna catch. As said by USAID, the...
As the trade war between the US and China continues to intensify, Chinese exports of tuna-like species such as Euthynnus Affinis and Auxis Thazard could get a further boost.
The ongoing trade war...
The US has listed more than 6,000 additional items from China that it intends to levy tariffs on as early as September. Some tuna products, including fresh and frozen, have also made the list –...
United Kingdom has shown an overall steady decline in the import of canned tuna over the last two years, losing over 14,000 M/T since 2016 third quarter or 16 percent of the total volume.
This trend...
Over the last couple of months, Vietnamese tuna exports have been steadily growing – largely thanks to the Southeast Asian country taking advantage of the ongoing US-China trade war. However,...
US imports of canned tuna have been stagnating for nearly a decade. However, monthly shipments have followed a similar pattern in each of the last four years, a spike in January followed by a sharp...
The canned tuna processing industry in the US geared up its production during the first three quarters of 2020. This is reflected in the very high volume of pre-cooked loins that entered the market -...
The US-China trade war impact on the American imports of tuna-like species was crystal clear in the figures for 2019. In the midst of the economic conflict, Chinese exporters were hit the hardest...
Seafood buyers in the US have halted their orders of Chinese seafood as the threat of increased duties looms, according to industry sources. The additional 10-percent duty on Chinese products,...
The value of US frozen tuna imports surged in the first half of 2018, driven primarily by volume growth. While imports of fresh tuna also rose in the same period, the increase in this case was driven...
At the Bangkok port, the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and Nauru are emerging as strong tuna raw material suppliers since many purse seiners are now carrying their flag.
Yesterday, Atuna reported about...
Vietnamese processors have seen their overall tuna exports to the EU increase in value by just over 25 percent in the first quarter of the year with pre-cooked loins contributing significantly to the...
Vietnamese tuna exports to the US market have continued to decline over the first half of the year, with the value of shipments dropping by 8.3 percent compared to the previous year. This fall was...
With the EU market’s demand for tuna products strengthening, Henk Brus, Managing Director of Pacifical, has addressed the question of where increased future supply should come from, especially when...
