(12.03.2019) Hanna Lyrek from QRILL Pet Mushing Team is the youngest musher to ever win the Finnmark race in the 500 km class. She passed last year’s winner Harald Tunheim, an experienced Norwegian dog musher and became Norwegian Champion in long-distance dog sledding.
Focusing on race-winning performance, along with making a positive contribution to a unique and challenging endurance sport, Team QRILL Pet is more than ‘just’ a team. Part race equipment, part pet nutritional study, and part recruitment vehicle for the sport itself, Team Qrill Pet’s ambitions are as broad as the winter landscapes the team will be racing across.
A Greenpeace campaign to protect the Antarctic Ocean, backed by 1.7 million people globally, has received the unprecedented support of the vast majority of krill fishing companies operating in Antarctic waters.
Aker BioMarine was named the most innovative company after a year-long journey in Europe's biggest and most prestigious business competition, the European Business Awards.
Aker BioMarine, Pure Science Triathlon team and Norseman have pioneered a study that examines the effects of krill oil omega-3s on athletic performance and recovery.
June 14, 2017, Oslo – Aker BioMarine, a biotech innovator and Antarctic krill harvesting company dedicated to improving human and planetary health, has been named as Norway’s most innovative company by Innovasjonsmagasinet, Norway’s leading innovation magazine.
According to its latest Annual report, Aker BioMarine generated revenues of USD 117 million in 2016 compared with USD 105 million in 2015, equivalent to 11 percent growth. The operating profit before depreciation and special operating items (EBITDA) amounted to USD 36 million in 2016.
Aker BioMarine has commissioned a new environmentally-friendly krill fishing vessel for NOK 1 billion. The vessel will be constructed in Norway by VARD
Historic progress in the conservation of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean at this year’s CCAMLR meeting as the Commission agrees on further measures to protect the Antarctic ecosystem
