Strong as an Oxe

Six Fluggaboats ordered by Grieg Seafood Unst Inshore Services are currently building six Fluggaboats for Grieg Seafood. These boats are being used as fast work boats for their sites in Shetland. Four of these are 8.5 m twin OXE 150 hp forward cabin boats and two are single engine aft consol boats with deck area…

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Grieg \’winning biological battle\’ on Shetland

Grieg Seafood is continuing to get on top of its long running biological problems on Shetland, the company said in its 2020 second quarter results published today. Shetland harvest volumes at 3,770 tonnes, although slightly below guide, were 14 per cent up on the same period last year, while revenue rose by two per cent…

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Grieg \’winning biological battle\’ on Shetland

Grieg Seafood is continuing to get on top of its long running biological problems on Shetland, the company said in its 2020 second quarter results published today. Shetland harvest volumes at 3,770 tonnes, although slightly below guide, were 14 per cent up on the same period last year, while revenue rose by two per cent…

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Grieg strengthens sales and marketing team

Grieg Seafood has taken further steps to strengthen its marketing team by recruiting five new faces from other operations and fish farming companies. The company says it wants a stronger downstream team so it can position itself from being largely a supplier of salmon to a company that can become an innovation partner for selected…

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Grieg appoints Mowi executive to lead commercial strategy

GRIEG Seafood has appointed Mowi Norwegian sales director Erik Holvik to drive up the development and execution of the company’s downstream efforts and global commercial strategy. He joins the company, which has a major salmon farming operation on Shetland where it produces mainly for the UK market, as Chief Commercial Officer, taking up his new…

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Grieg Shetland sees harvest and prices increase

GRIEG Seafood has reported good price achievement at its Shetland operation during the start of this year. Announcing its 2020 first quarter results today, Shetland produced a harvest of 2,047 tonnes, up from 1,788 tonnes a year ago. And it achieved an EBIT or operational profit per kilogramme of NOK 6.80 compared with a LOSS…

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Farming ‘normal’ for now, says Grieg

BERGEN based Grieg Seafood said yesterday that its salmon farming operations were ‘running as normal’ during the coronavirus outbreak. The salmon was being harvested according to plan, said the company, adding that it would \’work relentlessly to keep our harvesting schedule also in the coming time’. Grieg, which farms in Norway, Scotland and Canada, said…

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Scottish farmer dismissed from price fixing case

SCOTTISH Sea Farms has been released from a US class-action lawsuit that alleges Norwegian salmon companies colluded to fix salmon prices. The plaintiffs, led by seafood supplier Euclid Fish Company, voluntarily dismissed Scottish Sea Farms from the case, Intrafish reported yesterday. The case was brought last August against salmon farmers Mowi, Grieg Seafood, SalMar, and…

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Grieg grinds out Shetland improvements

GRIEG Seafood said today that costs at its Shetland operation were still not at target level due to long standing biological problems, but it was slowly making vital improvements. Announcing its 2019 fourth quarter results, Grieg said Shetland produced income of NOK 151.3 million compared with NOK 245.2 for the corresponding period in 2018. This…

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Salmon businesses ‘must be closer to society’

THE chairman of Grieg Seafood said aquaculture companies must become closer to society if they want to be better loved and appreciated. Per Grieg Jnr said: ‘We must understand that we have a responsibility, that we have a social contract, a ‘licence to operate’. We must understand the spirit of the times.’ According to the newspaper…

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