Salmon, sushi and airlines

31/05/2012

As the Alaskan salmon season gets underway, this short blog from The Economist reveals how Japan Airlines designed refrigerated containers in the 1970s so it could carry Atlantic tuna out of the US for sushi. It was the start of a long love affair between ...

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