News - page 142
Vestia Holdings ehf. (Vestia), a subsidiary of the Icelandic bank NBI hf., has assumed 100% ownership of Eignarhaldsfelagið IG ehf. (IG Holdings ehf), the parent company of Icelandic Group. This will have no effect on Icelandic Group´s business activities or daily operations but provide strong support to the Group's management in realizing the company's full capabilities.
Export Packers Company Limited has announced that it has obtained the exclusive rights for all of Canada to supply seafood under the Safe Harbor mercury certification program which will enable Export Packers to supply the Canadian market with healthier seafood.
The fishing Icelandic company, Uthafsskip with two trawlers freezers vessels, received her second pair of trawlers winches for his "Glorya" vessel, acquired to the IBERCISA company; confirming hereby the confidence put in the equipments of Spanish manufacture, and having in these moments equipments on their two trawlers vessels.
The Norwegian company Cryogenetics Ltd. has made a significant breakthrough by inventing a method for cryo-preservation of fish embryos down to -130° C (-202° F).
The Baltic Sea Action Summit that was held in Helsinki on Wednesday, 10 February was a success in the opinion of the arrangers. The summit attracted a large and high-level group of participants to Finlandia Hall to tell about their commitments to protect the Baltic Sea. All in all around 500 persons were on hand for the event.
China is set to overtake the US as the world's largest grocery market for the first time by 2014, new research has suggested.
In the first week of February 2010 the US producers of pollock were only unrolling operations on the grounds, while their Russian colleagues continued working with their sleeves rolled up and reported record high catches for the recent years.
Wout Dekker, Nutreco CEO: " We are pleased with the performance in 2009 despite the economic turmoil. Nutreco applied strong measures at the beginning of 2009 to withstand the recession.
F/V Lundey NS.‘The best I can say is that this has been very quiet fishing. We tow all day long and are satisfied with 100 tonnes at the end of it. Yesterday we finished up with only 60 tonnes, which isn't enough to be satisfied with,' said skipper Arnthór Hjörleifsson of Lundey NS when we spoke to him yesterday afternoon, HB Grandi reported on 12 February.
Iceland´s Minister of Fisheries, Jon Bjarnason, and his Faroese counterpart met in Torshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands, earlier in the week and on 9th February they signed a new fisheries contract between the two countries. Some highlights:
Over the next two years, ten unique containers will snake their way through Maersk Line's global shipping network as part of the "Trip around the World" art project.
Charoen Phokphand Foods Ltd., the world's leading producer and supplier of farmed White Shrimp, and AKVA group ASA, the world's leading supplier of technology for the aquaculture industry, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement for developing a complete new production system for the production of white shrimp utilizing AKVA's recirculation technology and CPF's broad knowledge in shrimp farming.
Within the framework of the common fisheries policy the following developments have taken place