Icelandic fishing gear supplier and manufacturer Hampiðjan has established itself with a sales office in Murmansk, with Sergei Kiselev appointed to manage sales of fishing gear from Hampiðjan and other companies within the group to Russian fishing companies, as well as handling servicing.
The new office is situated in a prime location in the Murmansk Trawl Fleet (MTF) building at the quayside, where many other fishing companies also have their offices.
‘Hampiðjan is very optimistic for the future of its Murmansk branch and we welcome Sergei Kiselev to the team,’ a spokesman for the company said.
Sergei Kiselev has plenty of experience of the Russian trawling sector, with thirty years as a trawl master behind him, mostly on MTF trawlers, where his role was to oversee every aspect of the fishing gear on board and to select in consultation with the skipper which gear to deploy according to circumstances and conditions.
He graduated from navigation college in 1972 and ten years later he graduated from the Arkhangelsk Fisheries Academy as a senior fishing gear technologist. He also spent three years in the Russian navy, but most of his career, from 1976 to 2015, has been spent with MTF, and most of that time as a fishing gear manager.
