The Nobel Brothers Shipyard – part of the Kalashnikov group – has celebrated the keel-laying of a new vivier crabber for Vladivostok company Vostok, which has ordered two such vessels for fishing in the northern Pacific region.
The 61.35-metre, 13-metre design has been developed by St Petersburg company Marine Engineering Centre, and the ice-class crabber will have a 550 cubic metre capacity in its six tanks, providing a carrying capacity of 80-100 tonnes of live catch.
The layout on board is for deploying and retrieving cone-shaped traps for a variety of crab species.
‘It’s a great pleasure to know that the Nobel Brothers Shipyard will construct the first Russian vessel of its kind for live crab catching and transportation under Project 6135,’ said the yard’s CEO Dmitriy Bystrov.
‘Our shipyard has already built crabber vessels that fully adhere to the international conventions on crew living and working conditions. The technologies employed by Russian shipbuilding are constantly evolving. We’re doing everything we can to ensure the comfort of crews at sea and to automate as much of their labour-intensive work as we possible.’
The two crabbers for Vostok are being built under the investment quotas initiative, designed to stimulate the fisheries and shipbuilding sectors.
