Fish & Shrimp: Frozen, Chilled & Salmon

CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers fish and shrimp in five trades: whole round frozen sardine, mackerel and horse mackerel for the West African, Egyptian and Gulf pelagic importers; whole round skipjack and yellowfin tuna and pre-cooked loins for canneries and packers; farmed tilapia and pangasius, whole and as IQF fillets, for Middle East and African retail and foodservice; frozen vannamei and black tiger shrimp as HOSO, HLSO, PD, PDTO, PUD, EZ peel and cooked, by count and net weight; and farmed Atlantic salmon, fresh on ice as HOG and fillets by air or truck and frozen as HOG and portions by reefer container. The seafood book is fish and shrimp only - no crab, lobster, oysters, other shellfish or molluscs such as squid, octopus, cuttlefish, clams and mussels - and every lot is species-declared and certifiable as halal by the destination's accepted certifier. The 2025 export declarations under HS 0303 put the USA at 546k MT, Morocco at 349k MT at USD 1,195/MT, India at 345k MT, Indonesia at 341k MT and Oman at 305k MT at USD 1,169/MT; 2024 declarations under HS 0306.17 put Ecuador at 1,084k MT and India at 666k MT of frozen shrimp, and under HS 0302.14 Norway at 964k MT of fresh salmon. Lots are graded on size or count, glaze, net weight and core temperature (-18°C or colder for frozen), with histamine certified on mackerel and tuna and antibiotic residues on shrimp, and move in 40-ft high-cube reefer containers on FOB, CFR and CIF terms or, for fresh salmon, by air and truck, freight quoted through the carriers and forwarders.