Posts Tagged ‘Norwegian Seafood Council’
Norway exports off to flying start
NORWEGIAN seafood exports got off to a strong start in the New Year with revenues last month increasing by almost a billion kroner – or £90.5 million. The country exported 200,600 tonnes of seafood worth NOK 8.6 billion (£778.3 million), a four per cent decline in volume, but an increase of NOK 992 million or…
Read MoreWorld's first salmon ‘ATM’ opens
THE world’s first salmon vending machine has gone into action in Singapore. From a distance it looks like a brightly coloured bank cashpoint, but move in closer and it will dispense not banknotes but frozen Norwegian salmon fillets, all ready to cook. A local and as yet unnamed local distributor has come up with the…
Read MoreNorway ‘will strike its own deal with UK’
NORWAY will reach a separate agreement with the UK in the event of a no deal or a hard Brexit, in order to safeguard the two countries’ uninterrupted trade in seafood. This was the message from Norwegian fisheries minister Harald Tom Nesvik, addressing delegates at the Norwegian Seafood Council seminar in London yesterday. Nesvik drew…
Read MoreNorway stages summit as Brexit fears mount
BREXIT and its impact on the Norwegian seafood industry will be the focus of a major summit meeting in London today. As speculation mounts in the Oslo media that a no-deal scenario could almost bring exports to a halt in a worst case scenario, three senior Norwegian government ministers, fisheries minister Harald Tom Nesvik, the…
Read MoreNorway export fears over Brexit vote
THE Norwegian seafood industry has expressed alarm over future sales to the UK after last night’s crushing Brexit deal defeat in the House of Commons. Britain is Norway’s fourth largest export market for fish. It exported 148,000 tonnes in 2018, worth more than £5 billion, more than half of it salmon. Add in oil and…
Read MoreProcess more, earn more – seafood chief
THE head of Norway’s Seafood Council has said the industry could hugely increase its wealth and job creation if more of the fish it sold abroad was processed before it left the country. Presenting the 2018 exports figures yesterday, chief executive Renate Larsen pointed out that 84 per cent of the salmon went out unprocessed.…
Read MoreRecord 2018 for Norway seafood exports
NORWEGIAN seafood exports hit a record high of 99 billion kroner during 2018 – or just over £9 billion. But there was a little disappointment that they did not break the magical 100 billion kroner barrier. Nevertheless, the figure, released this morning, represents a five per cent value increase on 2017 and, at 2.7 million…
Read MoreNorwegian fish exports hit November high
NORWAY exported 276,000 tonnes of seafood worth 9.9 billion kroners (£914 million) during November, figures released today show. While the volume fell by eight per cent, revenues from the sales rose by 11 per cent or NOK 990 million, reflecting the rising price of fish, particularly cod and salmon. The country is now on course…
Read MoreNorway to fly salmon direct to China
THE Chinese operated Hainan Airlines is to start the first direct flights from Oslo to Beijing next spring in a move that will boost Norway’s seafood market in China. Norway is looking to increase its salmon exports to China’s burgeoning middle classes and the Norwegian Seafood Council predicted in the summer that the volume of…
Read MoreNorway catchers get more for less
NORWAY may be exporting less cod in volume terms this year, but its fishermen are netting more money for whatever they sell, new figures from the Norwegian Seafood Council show. And despite this, demand among UK buyers is on the rise. Depending on whether it is fresh or frozen, the price of cod has risen…
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