Raw material shortage forces major Russian fish processor Murmansk Fish Factory to shut down
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Barents Observer] by Trude Petersen - September 2, 2014
One of Russia’s largest fish processing companies, Murmansk Fish Factory has had to shut down because of lack of raw materials due to the ban on import of fish from Norway. The company threatens to sue the Government if problems aren’t solved.
“Work has been discontinued, as shipments of live fish from Norwegian vessels stopped due to the sanctions”, the company’s manager Mikhail Zub says to ITAR-TASS. “We have written a letter to the Prime Minister, but have still not received any answer”.
The fish processing plant in Murmansk had contracts with Norwegian exporters on 31,000 tons of cod, capelin, pollock, haddock and herring to be delivered in the last half of 2014...
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