High Liner Foods will invest approximately $30 million over (€28.5 million) over four years to modernize its facility in Newport News, Virginia.

Virginia Economic Development Partnership Managing Director of Communications Suzann Clark confirmed to IntraFish the company will be adding new equipment and production lines to its 240,000-square-foot facility.

The company took over the plant in 2011 with the acquisition of Icelandic Group's US and Asian operations.

The following year, it shifted a significant portion of its North American processing operations to the plant after it closed