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Emirates SkyCargo partners with Seafood Souq. From L to R Sayed Harris, Cargo Manager, Emirates SkyCargo; Sean Dennis, CEO and Co-Founder, Seafood Souq; Dennis Lister, VP Cargo Commercial Development, Emirates SkyCargo and Dennis Konoplev, COO and Co-Founder, Seafood Souq.

There’s an unfortunate reality occurring globally where seafood is treated as a simple commodity by business buyers and end consumers. The fault of this does not lie with any particular individual or group but is part of a larger issue with how the majority of seafood is bought and sold globally.

The Global Seafood Expo is the single largest seafood exposition held annually in Brussels, Belgium where the world’s most important seafood producers/exporters attend and exhibit their products, capabilities, innovations, brands and processes to their buyers, partners and distributors.

…It was early in Q1 2019, We had been developing our platform and processes for months on end and we were finally ready…it was the moment of truth, time to test a live order!

Hi there! My name’s Sophie and I recently joined the team at Seafood Souq as Market Research Manager. As a newcomer to the seafood industry (but a keen seafood consumer) my first two weeks were spent deep diving (pardon the pun) into researching all things aquaculture and I was honestly shocked.

At Seafood Souq we’ve created five pillars to ensure we stay true to what we originally set out to do, both internally and externally. We live and breathe these five pillars, they are the key ingredients that improve our ability to approach and revolutionise an industry.

Our company, Seafood Souq launched four months ago and we just held our first board meeting. Many of you reading this may think that it is strange that a company as young as ours is already implementing corporate governance practices, but we believe that it is core to our values as a startup.

As with the nature of our business model, traceability and transparency is of utmost importance to us, both in operations for customers buying on the platform (We’ll get to that in the next post) and also in how we run our company internally. It’s because of this ethos that we want our first post to be an introduction — Who the founding team are and how we all came together.