Agribusiness / Food in Canada
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CANADA, 2017/01/16
The grounded bunkering tanker Arca 1 has been freed from the coast of Little Pond, N.S., and is presently tied to a dock in the Sydney harbour next being stranded for a week.
McKeil Marine Ltd., a marine transportation firm, and the Canadian Coast Guard worked together to remove the vessel during high tide Sunday morning.
"The work was done safely and professionally and proficiently. There were no lives lost, no injuries and no harm to the environment," said Keith Laidlaw, a senior response officer with the Coast Guard's environmental branch.
The Arca 1's crew of six were removed from the tanker in a helicopter rescue last Sunday.
Rescue workers scoop crew from tanker stranded off Cape Breton
First attempt to tow tanker grounded off Cape Breton ends in failure
The tanker was towed out of the area around 10 a.m. today, next high seas and winds foiled before attempts to free the vessel.
"Weather forced us to wait until presently to do it and it really was the best time to do it," said Laidlaw.
Initial, crews pumped out the ballast water in the hull. Ships carry ballast to increase stability and it was pumped out to make the Arca 1 lighter and easier to tow.
"They took several hundred tonnes (300 tonnes) of ballast water off the vessel...and it floated free," said Stephen Bornais, a spokesman for the Canadian Coast Guard who was at the scene at the same time as the ship was removed.
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CHINA, 2017/01/16
Atlantic Canada's seafood industry is starting 2017 with a boost for the bottom line thanks to lower tariffs on seafood entering the booming China market.
The Jan. 1, 2017, tariff cuts announced just before New Year's Day by China's ministry of commerce will benefit about a quarter of Canada's seafood exports to China. The exports to China were valued at $634 million as of October 2016.
World Affairs Canada told CBC News crab, frozen halibut and albacore are part the export products most benefiting from the tariff reductions.
Tariffs on these products will be reduced on average from 11 to five %, leaving additional money in the pockets of seafood companies in 2017.
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CANADA, 2016/11/30
Australian ranchers Glen Waldron and Kim Groner are back at the Canadian Western Agribition for the initial time in three years.
The duo are in Canada looking for genetics to bring back to their operation, Elite Cattle Co. in the national of Queensland.
Waldron said that Canadian cattle breeds suit the Australian market well. He added that there’s about 40 other Australians at the show this year, which is not uncommon.
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CHINA, 2016/09/02
Alberta’s beef and tourism industries are part the sectors poised to benefit from a flurry of deals and agreements reached during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to China this week.
On Thursday, the federal government announced the signing of 56 deals with China worth additional than $1.2 billion. Part those was a memorandum of considerate between Calgary-based beef marketing organization Canada Beef Inc. and Bright Haibo Invested Million, a subsidiary of Bright Food Group, the major food and beverage company in East Asia.
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EGYPT, 2016/04/16
Egypt rejected a cargo of Canadian wheat for a second time due to a dispute over the level of ergot fungus, deepening a standoff with traders presently reluctant to sell the grain to the world’s major importer.
Quarantine officials at the Ministry of Agriculture turned away the 8,000-metric-ton cargo again next a initial rejection before this month, according to a Cairo-based trader familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as the data isn’t public. The supplies met the acceptable levels of ergot, a naturally occurring fungus, the trader said.
