{"id":5332,"date":"2013-06-10T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/06\/10\/icelandic-ocean-technology-sector-grows-by-13\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:55:00","slug":"icelandic-ocean-technology-sector-grows-by-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/icelandic-ocean-technology-sector-grows-by-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic ocean technology sector grows by 13%"},"content":{"rendered":"

These companies design and manufacture fishing gear, packaging equipment, processing equipment and software for the fishing industry and sell their products under their own brand. Today, the firms that belong to this sector amount to around 70 in total.<\/p>\n

The growth of the fisheries and fish processing industry was limited in 2012 according to Statistics Iceland. The income growth of the ocean technology sector succeeded expectations as the firms mostly expected a 5-10% increase in income when contacted one year ago.<\/p>\n

The ocean technology sector is growing faster than the fishing industry and gross domestic product. These firms have shown substantial growth potentials and will need to have secure access to capital in the coming years in order to expand and market themselves internationally.<\/p>\n

Marel and Hampidjan remain the largest ocean technology firms in Iceland. The 20 largest companies within the Icelandic ocean cluster are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Marel hf.<\/li>\n
  2. Hampi\u00f0jan hf.<\/li>\n
  3. Skaginn hf.<\/li>\n
  4. \u00cdsfell ehf.<\/li>\n
  5. H\u00e9\u00f0inn hf.<\/li>\n
  6. K\u00e6lismi\u00f0jan Frost ehf.<\/li>\n
  7. Prentsmi\u00f0jan Oddi hf.<\/li>\n
  8. Promens Dalv\u00edk ehf.<\/li>\n
  9. Samhentir kassager\u00f0 ehf.<\/li>\n
  10. Wise ehf.<\/li>\n
  11. Trefjar ehf.<\/li>\n
  12. Naust Marine ehf.<\/li>\n
  13. Vaki Fiskeldiskerfi hf.<\/li>\n
  14. PromensTempra ehf.<\/li>\n
  15. 3X Technology ehf.<\/li>\n
  16. Baader \u00cdsland ehf.<\/li>\n
  17. Samey ehf.<\/li>\n
  18. Marorka ehf.<\/li>\n
  19. Valka ehf.<\/li>\n
  20. Sj\u00f3v\u00e9lar ehf.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The report can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    According to a new study by the Icelandic Ocean Cluster, the Icelandic ocean technology sector experienced a ISK66bn (\u20ac414m) turnover in 2012, a 13% increase from 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-5332","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\/5332","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=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}