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Stock Photographs of Yellowfin Tuna Shipping from Dockside to Seafood Processing Factory
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Seafood Shipping Trucks - 01
Taprobane Seafoods (Pvt) Ltd.  , a modern seafood processing factory near Negombo in western Sri Lanka, ships a range of high quality tuna, crab, and squid products around the world. They purchase from local fishermen at a range of locations around Sri Lanka, then transport the seafood for processing to centres in Chillaw, Jaffna, Kilinochohi, Mannar, and their main factory at Dankotuwa. (See map below) Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Seafood Shipping Trucks - 02
Taprobane Seafoods have their own fleet of modern trucks designed to transport tuna, crab, and other seafood around the island of Sri Lanka in perfect condition. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Seafood Transport from Storeroom to Truck
Once processing and packing is completed at the Taprobane seafood processing centres, the products are speedily loaded onto their own fleet of trucks for onward shipment to export seafood markets all around the world. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna Loading
One of the main ports of landing for local long-line tuna-fishing boats is Muthtuwal Harbor, a busy fish-dock just outside of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Once the sorting and grading has been completed, the fish are loaded into ice-trucks for onward transport to the main processing factory at Dankotuwa, near Negombo. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna Loading
The large and heavy fish, here identified with buyer's color patch and individual recorded details, are loaded into trucks for onward transport to the main processing factory at Dankotuwa, near Negombo. They are packed in layers of ice for their short journey, which ensures that they arrive at the factory in perfect condition. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 01
Yellowfin tuna wait on the floor of the sorting and grading room at Muthtuwal fish-docks to be loaded into lorries and shipped to the processing factory at Dankotuwa. A colored patch identifies the company that has purchased each fish. Other stickers record the weight and process identification number assigned to them after grading. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 02
Yellowfin tuna wait on the floor of the sorting and grading room at Muthtuwal fish-docks to be loaded into lorries and shipped to their final destinations. The colored patch on each fish identifies the company that has purchased them. Other stickers record the weight and process identification number assigned to them after initial grading. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 03
A batch of Yellowfin Tuna on the floor of the sorting and grading room at Muthtuwal fish-docks wait to be loaded into lorries for transport to their next destination. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 04
Yellowfin tuna wait on the floor of the sorting and grading room at Muthtuwal fish-docks to be loaded into lorries and shipped to their final destinations. Their tails and dorsal fins have already been removed. The colored patch on each fish identifies the company that has purchased them. Other stickers record the weight and process identification number assigned to them after initial grading. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 05
A worker at the Muthtuwal fish-docks wears a red shirt to identify him from other buyers and graders in the busy sorting and grading room. With his colleagues, he waits as another lorry backs into the loading bay on a rainy day in western Sri Lanka. Sacks of ice can be seen on the left - the ice will be packed in layers between the Yellowfin tuna to ensure that they arrive at the processing factory in perfect condition. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 06
With the insulated lorry in position, the workers of the Muthtuwal fish-docks can now start to load the tuna between layers of ice, ensuring that they arrive at the processing factory in Dankotuwa in perfect condition. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Yellowfin Tuna wait to be shipped - 07
With the insulated lorry in position, the workers of the Muthtuwal fish-docks can now start to load the tuna between layers of ice, ensuring that they arrive at the processing factory in Dankotuwa in perfect condition. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Taking a break at the Muthtuwal fish-docks
A worker at the Muthtuwal fish-docks in his distinctive red shirt takes a short break as he waits for more tuna to be unloaded from the long-liner fishing vessels outside on the harbor quay. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Packing Whole Tuna for Export - 01
The bulk of the highest quality fish, known as A++ grade, command the highest prices at auction. They are flown straight to Japan, where they will be resold for the sashimi market. Sashimi, often the first course in a formal Japanese meal, is believed to be the finest dish in Japanese cuisine, so the Japanese are prepared to pay a lot for the top grades of tuna. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Packing Whole Tuna for Export - 02
The Japanese market requires that the Yellowfin tuna fish are supplied whole, with no extra processing apart from the occasional removal of tail or head. These big fish are packed into insulated boxes, additional ice blocks are added, and they they are quickly air freighted straight to the fish markets of Japan. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Packing Whole Tuna for Export - 03
The Japanese market requires that the Yellowfin tuna fish are supplied whole, with no extra processing apart from the occasional removal of tail or head. These big fish are packed into insulated boxes, additional freezer blocks are added, and they they are quickly air freighted straight to the fish markets of Japan. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Packing Whole Tuna for Export - 04
The whole Yellowfin tuna fish are selected for size and weight before being packed into insulated boxes with additional freezer blocks, insulated foil blankets, and extra sheets of polystyrene insulation. They are then driven quickly to Colombo airport, and air freighted straight to Narita, and the busy fish markets of Japan. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Packing Whole Tuna for Export - 05
A line of the highest quality tuna fish wait to be packed into insulated boxes with additional freezer blocks, insulated foil blankets, and extra sheets of polystyrene insulation before they are driven quickly to Colombo airport, from where they will be air freighted straight to Narita near Tokyo, and the busy fish markets of Japan. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Tuna to the Trucks - 01
Yellowfin tuna wait on the floor of the sorting and grading room at Muthtuwal fish-docks to be loaded into their trucks. As each is lifted into its lorry, the colored tag of the buyer and the other identification numbers are checked to make sure that the correct fish goes into the correct truck. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Tuna to the Trucks - 02
With the value of each fish so high, it is vital that the route that each Yellowfin tuna takes from grading and sorting to weighing, recording, shipping and processing is checked and re-checked as it moves from stage to stage. With a typical catch of 1500 Yellowfin tuna being unloaded from a single long-liner boat and then passing through the sorting room, the clerks have to be continually on the alert. Contact Me to license any of these images.
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Tuna to the Trucks - 03
With the value of each fish so high, it is vital that the route that each Yellowfin tuna takes from grading and sorting to weighing, recording, shipping and processing is checked and re-checked as it moves from stage to stage. No fish can be loaded on to a truck until its details have been recorded and the official 'OK to load' has been granted. Contact Me to license any of these images.
Map, made by me, of the Purchasing and Processing centres used by Taprobane Seafoods (Pvt) Ltd.
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