Regional market
Oceania
Small, high-specification and strictly biosecure. Australia and New Zealand are the hardest import permits we work with.
Oceania is a modest market by volume and a demanding one by process. Australian biosecurity rules restrict which salmonid products may enter and in what form, and New Zealand applies its own import health standards. The commercial opportunity is real — premium food service and specialty retail pay well — but the permit has to be confirmed before anything else is discussed, because the answer sometimes is that the product cannot enter at all.
Most requested species
Atlantic cod
Gadus morhua
Barents Sea and Lofoten cod, quota-managed and MSC-certified. The skrei window from January to April is the year’s highest quality.
- Season now
- Available
- Origin
- Wild-caught · Farmed
- Condition
- Fresh, chilled · Frozen
- Forms
- WR · HG · FLT · LOIN · PORT · SPLT
Red king crab
Paralithodes camtschaticus
Finnmark king crab, live or frozen clusters. Small quota, high value, and the tightest logistics of anything we handle.
- Season now
- Available
- Origin
- Wild-caught
- Condition
- Live · Frozen
- Forms
- WR · CLST
Cold-water prawn
Pandalus borealis
Cooked at sea within minutes of capture. Shell-on or peeled, sold on count per kilo.
- Season now
- Available
- Origin
- Wild-caught
- Condition
- Frozen
- Forms
- WR · PND
Preferred product forms
- Frozen whitefish portions for food service
- Frozen king crab and prawn for specialty retail
Certificate and document requirements
- Import permit issued before shipment
- Health certificate to the exact wording of the permit
- Biosecurity declarations for packaging materials
Transport modes
- Reefer container, 35–45 days
- Airfreight only where value justifies it
Typical door-to-door transit as quoted by forwarders, counted from collection at the plant to delivery at the buyer’s address, including export handling and import clearance under normal conditions. Customs holds, inspection sampling and missed connections are not included. Last reviewed 15 September 2026.
- Packing and sizes
- Packaging and labelling to Australian and New Zealand food standards, with country of origin stated on the retail unit.
- Key ports
- Oslo · Melbourne · Sydney · Auckland
- Buyer categories
- Specialty importers
- Premium food service distributors
- Payment risk
- Low. The commercial risk sits in the permit and the transit time, not in the counterparty.
- Seasonal opportunity
- The southern hemisphere calendar is inverted. Christmas demand lands in the Australian summer and has to be shipped in September.
- Working languages
- English
- Time zone
- AEST / NZST