Over three days, DanFish International at the Aalborg Congress & Culture Center (AKKC) has welcomed a wave of visitors from no fewer than 49 different countries. While AKKC reports a rise in visitor numbers, both exhibitors and attendees continue to highlight the exhibition as the fishing industry’s ‘place to be.’
This year organiser AKKC has every reason to be proud. In addition to overwhelmingly positive feedback from both exhibitors and visitors, the organisation’s director can also report a significant increase in attendance.
’After COVID, we experienced a slight decline in visitor numbers at DanFish, which we saw as a natural consequence of global events. That’s why we are especially pleased to announce that the trend has turned. This year, we saw a 7% increase in attendance, welcoming a total of 13,708 visitors from 49 different countries,’ said AKKC CEO Nicolaj Holm.
He commented that several new initiatives at this year’s exhibition contributed to the growth, including the NordicRas conference and the associated DanAqua exhibition focusing on aquaculture, as well as Danish Maritime’s conference Future Propulsion and Green Transition. The importance of DanFish International for the fishing industry has also been underlined by the participation of several prominent figures. Among these was Peter Borg, Greenland’s Minister for Fisheries, Hunting, Agriculture and Self-Sufficiency, who prioritised time in his busy schedule to attend the exhibition.
’I’m here because DanFish is an important exhibition – and it has been for many years. It’s also an event that Greenlandic stakeholders greatly value. It’s a tradition for them to attend, to discover new products, new partnerships, and even shipyards to build new vessels. That’s why it’s essential for me, as the minister responsible for the sector, to be here as well’ he said.
The fishing industry is Greenland’s largest and most important industry, making DanFish a natural meeting place for many exhibitors and visitors from Greenland.
Figures from this year’s exhibition show that 65.6% of attendees have purchasing power or influence purchasing decisions within their companies. While exhibitors use DanFish to showcase the latest innovations, maintain relationships, and build networks that can lead to future collaboration, this is also a place where deals are done.
In the fishing industry, these are far from small deals. Aalborg-based company Beritech finalised the sale of its fully electric shrimp cooker to a Norwegian customer for DKK 650,000 during the exhibition.’
’We’re thrilled whenever we sell new machines, and it’s fantastic to see customers recognise that Denmark is a specialist in cold-water shrimp. They want our equipment and value our expertise’ said Christian Nielsen, Project Manager at Beritech.
The shrimp cooker features electric heating elements and an electric actuator, making it part of the innovative solutions shaping the future of the fishing industry. This marks the fourth sale of this model in 2025.
This year marked the 29th DanFish International, and both exhibitors and visitors can already save the date for 12–14 October 2027, when Aalborg will once again transform into the global hub of the fishing industry.
