International

Operations

Sea Harvest Factory in SaldhanaSea Harvest’s fresh fish processing plants in Saldanha and Mossel Bay are built on deep water quays. This enables the trawlers to tie up alongside and off-load into the factory, essentially becoming part of the production line. The fresh fish factories produce a wide range of natural products such as fillets, loins, steaks and portions that are either plate frozen, blast frozen or individually quick frozen (IQF) for retail and foodservice markets around the world.

Besides frozen products, fresh head-on and gutted fish (PQ’s) and chilled fillets are packed in these facilities and air freighted to international markets.

Sea Harvest’s value-added processing plant in Saldanha is BRC (British Retail Consortium) accredited and produces a wide range of products that are coated, battered, crumbed, sauced or char-grilled to customer specifications.

Sea Harvest owns its own cold storage facilities which are equipped with mobile racking and have the capacity to hold more than 6 000 pallets.

Quality Assurance

Sea Harvest’s Quality Assurance programme starts on board its vessels and continues through the entire supply chain, ensuring quality and total traceability.

All vessels and processing facilities are fully EU and HACCP accredited and comply with United States FDA requirements. Sea Harvest facilities and processing methods are audited and monitored for compliance by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS), the South African accredited regulatory body.

factory floorNew Product Development and Innovation

Sea Harvest has been building international partnerships and developing products according to customer requirements for nearly fifty years. During this time the company has established itself as a leader in innovation and it has developed the resources to drive the new product development process.

Today Sea Harvest has a fully dedicated New Product Development team who have forged relationships with leading suppliers in South Africa and across the world. This has enabled the company to meet specific customer requirements, from sourcing unique ingredients to suit the tastes of niche markets, to producing innovative packaging designs.