High Seas Exim is a leading seafood exporter in Kerala, India. The Indian Seafood Industry is now more than 50 years old and the seafood market has become highly competitive with more and more companies coming to the front. High Seas Exim led by Mr. V. A. Sulfikar, the Managing Partner and Mr. V.A. Sumaize, Partner has become one of the reputed seafood companies in India in a very short span of time. We strongly believe that a culture of change needs to be followed to sustain and flourish in the emerging global seafood market.
The company is located at Chandiroor in Alappuzha Dist., Kerala, India and is situated in the Cochin-Alleppey seafood processing belt and 18 kms from the Cochin Fisheries Harbour. The Company has a 13,000 sq. ft. of built up area and the processing facilities include a pre-processing hall, two processing halls with 3 plate freezers and with a tunnel freezer with a total freezing capacity of 28 Tons/day and a cold storage capacity of 150 M Tons. A most modern quality control lab is also attached to the unit.
High Seas Exim is committed to enhance the value of the produces we offer to our customer in the global market including the European Union. We are working hard to adopt new ways for understanding what the customers want, and anticipating their needs and responding with innovative products.
Our team of well qualified and trained employees ensures high quality, safe food production to the utmost satisfaction of the customer. The Company aims to achieve high standards of production through globally accepted norms and principles. Our main objectives are the production and supply of safe food products to the customer and achieve maximum customer satisfaction.
Ameena Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd., established in 1992 is one of the seafood processing enterprises in India. The company is engaged in the business activities of pre-processing, processing, packing and exporting of Frozen Sea Foods worldwide.
The importing countries are mainly Japan, China, Korea, Canada and The European countries.The Company started by Mr. V. B. Abdul Azeez who is a self made man with around 35 years of experience in the seafood field. He started his career as an office boy and came up to an Entrepreneur of a company which has now an annual turnover of around 15 Crores.
He started the business with a peeling shed, i.e., the primary processing of the seafood and then supplying it to the exporting companies. He has lots of up and downs in this field and faced lots of consequences in these times, due to his effort and commitment and also a great support from his workers he emerged as one of the biggest suppliers in his state. As the number of peeling sheds increased due to his hard work and effort he then started an ice factory for utilising in his own company, because ice is an important factor for the seafood. After some years he started exporting seafood by taking a plant for rent he started processing and packing in the name Ameena Exports. In 1988 he built a new processing plant with national approval and named it as Ameena Enterprises. The company started processing, packing and exporting of sea food (mainly shrimps) to Japan, Korea and China. Ameena Enterprises was not exporting to European countries (EU) because it was not having EU approval.
In 1994 M/S Ameena Enterprises was renovated to an EU approved plant with all the facilities as per the HACCP specifications and got its EU registration from EIC. After that The Company started exporting to other Asian countries and also to Europe, Canada and some of the African Countries. In 1996 company was expanded to Orissa and Gujarat and has since emerged as a business group with three exporting companies named Ameena Ice and Cold Storage, High Seas Exim and Muhas Marine.
Now Ameena Enterprises Pvt. Ltd is one of the major exporting companies in India with 30 to 40 working staff and 150 labourers all around. Its production is around 20000 kg/day with two shifts with a plant having 300 Tonnes storage capacity. Apart from these Ameena has its own vehicles for the transportation of raw materials mainly from to states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Goa. The Group Ameena consists of three Ice factories, which collectively can consume 58 Tonnes of Ice per day and also three of its parent Exporting Companies.