Posts Tagged ‘Iceland’
Boost for Iceland\’s aquaculture education
One of Iceland’s leading universities has received a major grant to help develop vocational training in aquaculture. The ISK 46 million award to the University of Akureyri in the north of the country has come from Erasmus +, a European Union programme set up to support education and training for young people. Although Iceland is…
Read MoreNow Samherji bids for big shipping line
Samherji, one of Europe’s leading seafood businesses, has increased its stake in shipping and logistics company Eimskip, with a view to making an eventual takeover bid. The news has emerged in the same week that Samherji announced it had acquired a 50 per cent stake in Boston-based seafood supplier Aquanor Marketing Inc. Eimskip is a…
Read MorePlan to build salmon farm on former smelting site
Iceland\’s largest fishing company has unveiled a plan to set up a salmon farm on a former aluminium smelting site. The move signals the company’s intention to embark on an extensive expansion of its aquaculture business. The Samherji group has issued a statement that one of its divisions, Samherji Fish Farming, and aluminium smelter Norðurál,…
Read More\’Administrative jungle\’ holding up salmon applications
Dozens of operating applications for fish farming operations in Iceland are still stuck in a bureaucratic pipeline, some of them four or five years after they were first submitted, one of the country’s MPs has been told. Iceland’s main newspaper Morgunbladid reports that Jón Gunnarsson, who represents the Independence Party, raised the issue in the…
Read More\’Administrative jungle\’ holding up salmon applications
Dozens of operating applications for fish farming operations in Iceland are still stuck in a bureaucratic pipeline, some of them four or five years after they were first submitted, one of the country’s MPs has been told. Iceland’s main newspaper Morgunbladid reports that Jón Gunnarsson, who represents the Independence Party, raised the issue in the…
Read MoreVAKI Scotland Celebrates Five Years
Over the past five years, VAKI Scotland Ltd. has established a reputation for delivering superior customer support and service for clients in the UK and Ireland. As the company observes it fifth anniversary, Gareth Hammond, the area manager for the UK and Ireland shares his thoughts on the accomplishments and challenges during the subsidiary´s first…
Read MoreAKVA wins Iceland feed barge deal
The Icelandic salmon company Laxar Fiskeldi is to buy a large new feed barge from the AKVA group to meet an expected east coast increase in output over the next few years. The vessel, known as the AC 650 Panorama has a large feeding capacity of 650 metric tons in 12 silos, eight feeding lines…
Read MoreIceland salmon gets new retail brand
Iceland has launched its own retail salmon brand – at least among three fish farming companies. ASC certified fish is now being sold under the combined name of Iceborn, launched this week by the Norwegian sales company Seaborn. The businesses who have signed up are Laxar Aquaculture, Fiskeldi Austfjörður (Ice Fish Farm), and Arctic Fish,…
Read MoreMajor expansion from Icelandic salmon company
ICELAND’S determination to be a major player in salmon farming has taken another big step forward with the announcement that the company Fiskeldi Austfjarða hf, which trades under the name Ice Fish Farm, has received provisional clearance to add another 7,000 tonnes of biomass in the east of the country. The company already has an…
Read More200 jobs lost if Iceland salmon ban approved
A Warning has gone out that the potential to create up to 200 jobs will be lost if a proposal to ban fish farming along the fjord which leads to the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri is approved. Last month the city council told the government in a surprise move that it does not want…
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