Taking place at Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Vía Venue, Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, the world’s largest seafood trade event has opened its 31st edition, featuring reinforcing 51,217 net square metres of exhibition space.
The 2025 edition welcomes 2,187 exhibiting companies from 87 countries and 69 national and regional pavilions. New participating exhibiting countries and regions include Albania, Egypt, Georgia, Greenland, Malta, Nigeria and Réunion. New national and regional pavilions for the 2025 edition will include Agencia de Gestion Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucia, the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), Japan Federation of Soy Sauce Manufacturers Cooperatives, ProEcuador, Sri Lanka Export Development Board, Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial, IVACE (Spain) and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).
The event has again gathered leading industry players from across the globe: suppliers of seafood, equipment, packaging and services, retail buyers, food service and distribution businesses, importers, government and industry leaders.
“The strong turnout of global seafood companies at this 31st edition highlights the critical need for an international platform where companies from across the industry can connect, build partnerships, do business, explore new products and technologies, and tackle shared challenges and opportunities in-person,” said Wynter Courmont, Vice President, Seafood at Diversified, organizer of the annual event. “This year’s edition will promote industry growth by providing in-depth insights and key takeaways for companies during the conference program and through knowledge-sharing and networking opportunities on the event floor.”
Seafood Expo Global will welcome the world’s most important suppliers of seafood products that will display the most recent innovations in seafood – fresh, frozen, canned, value-added, processed and packaged – to industry buyers from across the world including supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, caterers, importers, distributors, seafood markets and other retail and foodservice companies.
Exhibitors include companies such as AquaChile, Balfego & Balfego, Cermaq Norway, Cooke, Denholm Seafoods Ltd, Frime, SAU, Gelazur, Godaco Seafood JCS, Grupo Profand SLU, Hilton Foods, Hofseth International, Iceland Seafood International, Lerøy Seafood Group ASA, Mowi ASA, Nueva Pescanova, Nordic Seafood A/S, Ocean Treasure World Foods Limited, Parlevliet & van der Plas Bv, Phillips Foods Inc, Regal Springs AG, Royal Greenland A/S, Salmar AS, Seafood Connection Bv, Sea Harvest Corporation (Pty) Ltd, Sea Pride LLC, Viciunai Group, Vinh Hoan Corporation, Worldwide Fishing Company SL, Unima, Zalmhuys Group and more.
In Seafood Processing Global, most aspects of seafood processing and services for the seafood industry, including packaging material and machinery, equipment and supplies for refrigeration and freezing, primary and secondary processing equipment, hygiene control and sanitation, quality assurance services, aquaculture equipment, transportation, cold storage, traceability solutions and more are represented.
Notable companies include Ace Aquatech, AKVA Group, BAADER, Cocci Luciano, Delanchy, CMA CGM, Fishtek Marine, Mediterranean Shipping Company, Lineage, Maersk, Marel, MMC First Process, MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co KG, Saeplast, Stingray Marine Solutions AS and more.
The event will also continue its collaboration with Barcelona Food Bank, Banc dels Aliments, to collect seafood donated by exhibitors at the end of the three days. Last year, Banc dels Aliments estimated recovering around 15,600kg of products.
