Product Overview

Top shell is collected by hand from the rocky, shallow-water stretches of Pakistan’s coastline, where the conical, spiral-patterned shell that gives the species its name is a familiar sight to local divers and collectors. Export demand for top shell runs strongest in East Asian markets, where the meat is used in both cooked shellfish dishes and as a shell material for buttons and inlay work.

Ahadi processes top shell by cleaning and lightly boiling the catch to loosen the meat before freezing, and can supply either whole in-shell product or extracted meat depending on the buyer’s use case. Product is graded by shell size or meat count and packed into 10 kg master cartons for export.

Export Availability

Frozen Top Shell from Pakistan is available for export in the packing and grading formats listed in the manifest,
with volumes from single trial cartons up to full reefer container loads. Ahadi’s export team
can prepare a pro-forma invoice, packing list, and certificate of origin on request, and arrange
loading at the port that best suits your shipping route.