by hmg | Mar 19, 2015 | News
Plans for establishing a New England Ocean Cluster House in Portland, Maine have gained media attention in the US in the past week. At a reception last Tuesday intended to deepen the relationship between Maine and Iceland, Thor Sigfusson CEO of the Iceland Ocean...
by Eva Rún Michelsen | Mar 9, 2015 | Fréttir, News
The fourth meeting of the North Atlantic Ocean Cluster Alliance (NAOCA) was held in Aalborg, Denmark March 6th. The mission of NAOCA is to create a bridge between businesses in ocean related industries in the North Atlantic through business clusters. The alliance...
by Bjarki Vigfússon | Feb 24, 2015 | News
The Iceland Ocean Cluster will open a food hall in Reykjavík Harbor, due for completion by 2016. Located on the ground floor of Ocean Cluster House, Reykjavík Seafood Hall will be the first of its kind in Iceland and a great addition to Reykjavík’s cultural and...
by Bjarki Vigfússon | Feb 16, 2015 | News
Waste Not: Financial Opportunities in Seafood By-products is the title of a lecture by Dr. Thor Sigfusson, CEO of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, presented next Wednesday in a free webinar hosted by SeafoodSource. SeafoodSource is a global leader in seafood information and...
by Bjarki Vigfússon | Jan 27, 2015 | News, news_home
Robert C. Barber, the newly appointed US Ambassador to Iceland, visited the Ocean Cluster House in Reykjavík on Tuesday. Thor Sigfusson, the CEO of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, navigated Barber and his staff as they met the companies and entrepreneurs of the Ocean...
by hmg | Jan 23, 2015 | News
Historically, Iceland’s fisheries industry is a raw material exporting industry, only processing the wild catch to a limited extent before export. Despite being almost exclusively a raw materiel exporter Iceland managed to transform itself from being one of the...