There has been little movement in the Bangkok skipjack market (SKJ1.8:BKK), as price takes a very slight further fall, slipping to USD 1,100 per ton. While packers are putting in considerable...
Tuna Trade News
Revealed: The Top 5 Tuna Importers Of The Americas
The Americas is one of the world’s biggest markets for imports of tuna, with the region’s top five importing nations alone bringing in nearly 400,000 M/T of canned tuna and precooked loins...
Spain’s “Basic” Canned Tuna Gets Cheaper
While fresh veg shoppers in Spain are noticing a pinch from rising costs for many food products this year, some of the nation’s other ‘food basket basics’, including canned tuna, are only...
DG MARE Officials Might Be Eating The Wrong Fish
Customers in Brussels’ restaurants and canteens could be subject to fish fraud, especially related to bluefin tuna, as a new investigation identifies that one in three meals served in the city...
UK Shoppers Have Growing Appetite For Sustainability
Supermarket shoppers in the UK are spending more on sustainable fish and seafood, and appear to have a fast growing appetite for products joined by the MSC blue tick label. Across the canned...
Tuna Deal With Canada In The Making?
The Philippines is an important tuna trading partner for Canada, and it appears that plans for a free trade agreement between the two countries, set to include tuna, are still moving forward...
Maersk Partners In Development Of Tuna Port
The busiest and most important port in the Indonesian tuna industry is set to be granted funds for further development, following the inking of a letter of intent (LOI) signed between Maersk...
Italian Tuna Rankings: The Yellowfin Dilemma
“How sustainable is your favorite can of tuna?” asks Greenpeace Italy, as this week it has released its Italian Tuna Guide, ranking canned tuna brands from most to least sustainable. The...
Pacifical MSC Tuna Hits US Market
Multi-billion dollar US firm Aramark has announced this week that it will transition to 100 percent sustainably sourced canned skipjack and albacore by April 1st 2016. The USD 15 billion...
Phil Tuna To Secure Another Trade Deal?
With local tuna industry players urging the government to look for new markets and expand in existing ones, the Philippines has been putting concerted effort into signing a bilateral trade...
BKK SKJ Prices: The Latest Predictions
The results of atuna.com’s recent poll have now been collected and counted, revealing a wide range of opinions on the issue in question. We asked readers: “In what range will BKK skipjack...
Confirming The Crisis: Thai Raw Mat Imports Drop
Suggesting a continued crisis in the Thai canned tuna processing sector, recent stats show a modest yet significant slide in Thailand’s imports of frozen whole round tuna, slipping six percent...
BKK SKJ: Another Slump In Bearish Market
With continued low demand from end market buyers, the Bangkok skipjack (SKJ1.8:BKK) price has slipped once again, declining to USD 1,150 per ton. This significant 11.5 percent slide from...
Alliance Further Postpones Stock Rights Offering
Alliance Select International has further deferred its stock rights offering, adding an extra one month delay to the move. The company failed to get the go-ahead from the Securities and...
Extra Challenges For Sri Lanka As EU Reviews Ban?
As well as the current red card ban placed on Sri Lanka’s fisheries exports to the European Union, tuna shipments from the Asian country could face some other challenges too. On November 7th,...
Atuna Readers Expect US Euthynnus Chunk Light Sales To Grow
The results of atuna.com’s recent opinion poll are in, where we asked readers: “Do you expect continued growth of US imports of Euthynnus Chunk Light?” The majority of voters, at 84 percent,...
Salmon Ahead Of Tuna & Cod In EU Fish Consumption
While 2014 EU canned tuna imports represented a five year high in the stats, a freshly published report outlines that tuna, over its entire product range, is the second most popular seafood...
5th Generation Tuna Canners Enter Australian Market
Celebrating its one hundredth birthday in 2013, Italian tuna company Callipo has now entered the Australian market, expanding its family business, which is now in its fifth generation, to...
TU Not Giving Up On Bumble Bee
Thai Union’s long wait on its planned Bumble Bee purchase could have left some buyers lacking enthusiasm by now. However, the world leading canned tuna producer states that it won’t give up on...
Anuga: How Innovation Is Stealing The Show
Across tuna companies and beyond, the word on many lips at this year’s Anuga trade fair is innovation, and food and drink producers alike, totaling more than 7,000 exhibitors, brought tons of...