Tag: Coronavirus
Covid drives big demand for crew-change specialists. Crew change specialists are in big demand from shipping companies struggling to get seafarers on or off vessels because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, an industry figure has revealed. Authorities ...
Digital transformation in food manufacturing. Scottish seafood supplier Aquascot has digitalised production and quality assurance in under 12 months. The fish processing firm responded to the challenges of coronavirus by accelerating their ambition to become ...
Resilience funding helps Scots shellfish producers. Seafood resilience funding has helped cover some of the costs of maintaining small shellfish businesses impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and EU Exit. We caught up with some businesses ...
Scottish vessels benefit from resilience funding. More than 850 fishing vessels impacted by Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Brexit have received resilience funding from the Scottish Government this year. The Seafood Producers Resilience Fund was launched in ...
Wellboat to be handed over ahead of schedule despite setbacks due to the Coronavirus. Havyard Leirvik handed over yet another wellboat to Frøy, and even the challenges yards have faced due to the coronavirus did ...
UK Government must invest in coastal communities. A new report claims that at least fourteen thousand jobs could be created as part of rejuvenated coastal communities if the Government invests £400 million per year for ...
Fishers call for priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine. European social partners in the fisheries sector, ETF and Europêche, call on the European Commission to support Member States in developing a specific COVID-19 vaccination protocol ...
Pandemic impacts PRFoods turnover. Fishing, farming and processing group PRFoods’ unaudited preliminary consolidated turnover in the third quarter of the financial year 2020/2021 amounted to 14.15 million euros, a decrease by 23.5% compared to the ...
Global fisheries and aquaculture hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic, says FAO report. Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply ...
Stolt Sea Farm financial results affected by pandemic. Stolt-Nielsen Limited, which includes Stolt Sea Farm in its portfolio, has reported unaudited results for the fourth quarter ended November 30, 2020. The Company reported a fourth-quarter ...
Seafood sector urgently needs rapid testing and cargo prioritisation. Donna Fordyce, Chief Executive of Seafood Scotland, said: “The window wherein companies would be able to salvage anything from the last couple of days is now, ...
Salmon farmers potential to lead BC’s economic recovery. An independent report out indicates British Columbia’s (BC) salmon farming industry in Canada has the potential to be a leader in BC’s post-pandemic economic recovery by stimulating ...
Mowi earnings drop significantly due to pandemic. Mowi achieved an operational EBIT of EUR 80 million in the third quarter of 2020, compared with EUR 148 million in the corresponding quarter of 2019. Mowi’s results ...
GAA delivers inclusive audit solutions for BAP customers. After successfully implementing accredited remote auditing for farms, hatcheries and feed mills early this year, the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification programme is ...
Impact of COVID-shock on UK seafood sector to be investigated by researchers. A research team led by the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has begun to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the UK ...
How seafood restaurants can come back strong after the pandemic. Like so many other companies both within and beyond the culinary world, seafood restaurants have struggled amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Recently we checked in on ...
Cypriot seafood sector benefits from EMFF support. Following the coronavirus outbreak with its sudden and unprecedented impact on fisheries and aquaculture, the European Commission took rapid action to help the sectors, including amendments to the ...
Sandford says volatility in markets a real challenge. New Zealand seafood company Sanford Limited says volatility in global markets, as a result of Covid-19, is an ongoing challenge for the significant foodservice component of its ...
Airlines are removing seats to make space for gadgets and seafood. Cargo, one of the least glamorous aspects of flying, is proving a rare ray of light for airlines amid the coronavirus gloom. The grounding ...
MSC continues to permit remote assessments. The Marine Stewardship Council is continuing to permit remote assessments and audits where Covid-19 restrictions prevent on-site audits. This is due to the continuing impact of the pandemic on ...
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