NPC already operates the world’s largest shrimp production site at its location in Al-Leith, south of Jeddah in the Red Sea. NPC has now decided to expand its activities to include production of marine finfish, and has ambitions to establish production capacity of 35-50,000t of Yellowtail Kingfish (greater amberjack).<\/p>\n
NPC and AKVA have worked closely together to develop the production systems and strategies since the first consultancy agreement was signed during the Aqua-nor exhibition in 2007. In January the Board of Directors of NPC approved the plan to build the first “pilot scale” facility for the production of 5,000t of fish.<\/p>\n
The first major deliveries from AKVA are the main components for a brood stock facility and the LOI includes delivery of a complete marine hatchery, two complete marine nursery systems, a complete marine pre-grow-out facility and four complete marine grow-out facilities.<\/p>\n
For AKVA the brood stock delivery has a value of about NOK7m and the LOI agreement has estimated value of about EUR15m (NOK135m) and is planned for delivery during 2009-2011. The development of the future stages to reach 35-50,000t production will be decided based on the success of the pilot scale operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
National Prawn Company (NPC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and AKVA group ASA have entered into a delivery contract and Letter of Intent (LOI) for contemplated aquaculture deliveries during 2009-2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}