RD Tuna Canners Ltd. fully owned and managed by the RD Group of Companies, is now poised to meet the challenges of the 21st century and thereby affirms its thrust to produce quality canned tuna products. Billed as Papua New Guinea's project of the year 1997, RD Tuna Canners together with sister company RD Fishing PNG Ltd. were incorporated in Papua New Guinea and have granted pioneer status by the PNG government. Both companies are the first and only integrated tuna fishing and canning operation in the country. The operations of the two companies are governed by a 20 years agreement signed by the RD with both the independent state of Papua new Guinea and the Provincial government of Madang, PNG. The agreement commenced on July 31, 1995 and would end (although subject to renewal) on July 31, 2015. Although new in PNG, RD has been into the fish and marine products processing business since 1981. In the Philippines RD operates the following marine products related type business 1. Commercial Tuna fishing 2. Two canneries with 140 and 200 metric tones capacity for each. 3. Fish and prawn processing plant geared for export. 4. 7,000 metric tones cold storage in PNG and 12,000 metric tons in Philippines. 5. Two ice plants capable of producing more than 100 metric tones of ice per day. 6. Prawn and fish farms. 7. Prawn hatchery. 8. Two large wharves. 9. Cooked tuna loins processing plant. 10. Two slips ways and dockyard facilities complete and side by side with modern maintenance and repair yards.