The deep-frozen tunas at -60º have arrived at the fiscal precinct dock from Barbate
A few months ago, the firm from Conile expanded its presence in the Free Trade Zone with a new 9,000 m2 warehouse that has deep-freezing chambers for 3,200 tons.
This morning, the Petaca Chico company unloaded 400 tons of wild bluefin tuna deep-frozen at -60º for its new facilities in the tax area of the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz. These facilities have 9,000 m2 of productive industrial surface, added to the 2,500 m2 already available in the tax area, and have deep-freezing chambers with storage capacity for 3,200 tons.
These cold chambers have cutting-edge ultra-freezing technology, classified as sustainable because natural refrigerants such as ethane are used for the process. In this way, the company Petaca Chico continues with its firm commitment to sustainability in all its processes from fishing to conservation.
In fact, the Free Zone is taking an important turn in its industry model, making it more sustainable, optimizing its infrastructure to provide better service to users and ensuring its commitment to the environment.
The unloading was destined for the new facilities that Petaca Chico has in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, located on the Ribera dock. The pieces have been unloaded directly from the factory ship that Petaca Chico has hired for the entire trap fishing season and which has been anchored very close to the Barbate trap and in which you lift every day that they have been carried out. Once the pieces are on board, the tuna are cut up and deep-frozen at -60º.
The process lasts just 20 minutes, from when the tunas are caught in the trap until they are cut up and deep-frozen in the hold of the vessel. With this rapid process, the highest quality tuna meat is achieved, preserving all the organoleptic properties that this tuna naturally possesses.
A few months ago, the Petaca Chico company expanded its activity in the Cádiz tax district with the operation of warehouse 23, a plant for the processing of fishing products, with which it has quadrupled its productive industrial surface area in the Cádiz district.
The fishing campaigns in other fisheries owned by the company Petaca Chico, such as the traps it has in the south of Portugal, have not yet ended and will be unloaded later in the same facilities, thus completing the total tuna quota that Petaca Chico has available.
Petaca Chico sells this almadraba bluefin tuna deep frozen at -60º under its brand “Almadraba de Petaca Chico” which guarantees the quality of this exceptional product. The marketing channel is focused on the Horeca channel, for restaurants, also having a line of self-service products in large stores and specialized gourmet stores.