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June, 1-st, 2013 the Interstate Standard GOST 31794-2012 «Grained salmon caviar. Specifications» was put in force as a substitution for GOST R 52336-2005 which is to be canceled February, 15-th, 2015...
This year’s Associated Icelandic Ports environmental award, Fjörusteinnn (the Shore Rock) has today been awarded to HB Grandi. In his speech, the chairman of the Associated Icelandic Ports board, Hjálmar Sveinsson, said that the award is richly deserved, commenting that the company has been active in rejuvenating the Nordurgardur area of the city’s Grandi district, including by demolishing old and obsolete buildings...
Norwegian minister of fisheries Elisabeth Aspaker is currently in Iceland to attend a Nordic conference on fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, food and forestry that opened today in Selfoss. She and her entourage took the opportunity early yesterday morning to visit HB Grandi, accompanied by Iceland’s minister of fisheries Sigurdur Ingi Jóhannsson...
It’s now a year since Ísbjörninn, HB Grandi’s cold store at Nordurgardur, was opened. Since then approximately 17,000 tonnes of fish have passed through it and it’s clear that embarking on the construction was a worthwhile enterprise...
‘We’re the last of the Icelandic pelagic fleet still at sea and we’ll probably do what we can and then call it a day. We’re in the Rose Garden, well inside the Icelandic EEZ, and fishing has been slow,’ said Arnthór Hjörleifsson, skipper of Lundey NS, when we spoke to him earlier today.
‘If anything, there has been a greater importance to Seamen’s Day in recent years. Today is is linked to municipal celebrations that last the full weekend in many communities, such as Reykjavík, Grindavík, Neskaupstadur and there are certainly more,’ said Magnús Thorvaldsson, one of Iceland’s most experienced purse seine skippers...
The Seamen’s Day will be celebrated today on the 1st of June. As in previous years, HB Grandi is one of the sponsors of the Festival of the Sea, which is organised by Associated Icelandic Ports and Seaman's Day Council. This year there will be a varied set of family entertainments offered by HB Grandi at Nordurgardur...
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of CodMarine® marks a breakthrough in the market for pharmaceutical-grade fish oil. The supplement, produced by Norway's Pharma Marine AS, is made from by-products from certified sustainable North East Arctic cod, haddock and saithe.
The talks took place on May 20, 2014 in Moscow upon the initiative of the Mexican party and were devoted to the discussion of sea products export from the establishments interested in exports into the territory of the Customs Union. Mexican Ambassador to the Russian Federation Rubén Beltrán Guerrero also took part in the meeting...
Future Fish Eurasia, the 7th International Fair for Fish Imports/Exports, Processing, Aquaculture and Fisheries will be organised by Eurasia Trade Fairs at the Izmir International Fair Centre between 05 – 07 June 2014...
Guests passing HB Grandi’s stand at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels these last few days have been treated to the usual delicacies produced from Icelandic ingredients...
HB Grandi took the opportunity on the first day of the Seafood Expo Global in Brussels to sign a contract for the purchase of a RevoPortioner low pressure forming machine from Marel Townsend Further Processing. This machine makes it possible to form blocks of fish and minced fish into the shapes and sizes that a customer requires...
As agreed with Competent Authorities of Kazakhstan and Belarus from April 23 to April 30, 2014, the Rosselkhoznadzor experts inspected Greek establishments manufacturing products of animal origin, which are interested in exportation of their products into the Customs Union member countries...
The Rosselkhoznadzor schedule of inspections envisages inspections of Irish fish processing plants and animal product producing plants interested in exports of their products to the CU member countries from May 12 to May 21, 2014...
There was plenty of traffic at HBB Grandi’s stand on the first day of the Seafood Expo Global that opened yesterday in Brussels and will continue to Thursday as usual...
The annual Seafood Expo Global opens in Brussels tomorrow, the largest event of its kind anywhere in the world. The event spans the 6th to the 8th of May and as in previous years, HB Grandi has a presence there...
The Rosselkhoznadzor was notified of the fact that from April 1 this year the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) of Germany excluded Russia from the list of countries having privileges for importation of dual-use commodities from Germany. The BAFA considers RIDASCREEN® and SureFood Test-Kits to be among such commodities...
Ten Icelandic pelagic boats are currently tied up in the Faroes, five in Tórshavn and another five at Tvøroyri, where their crews are waiting for the blue whiting to migrate out of EU waters and into the Faroese EEZ. Two Icelandic vessels were searching in Faroese waters and in the gray zone to the south, and they caught some blue whiting in the middle of the week...
The last few days have seen 4,000 tonnes of blue whiting landed at HB Grandi’s Akranes fishmeal plant and production is now a round-the-clock operation with two twelve-hour shifts running. The big plant is running at full capacity on blue whiting, while the smaller facility that was recently commissioned is producing bone meal...
It appears that relatively little blue whiting has migrated northwards west of the British Isles outside the UK and Irish territorial limits this year. There was good fishing in international waters west of Ireland last week, but it seems that the fishing has dropped away and the Icelandic vessels fishing there had to work hard for their catches...