Newbuilding 406 from Karstensen Shipyard in Skagen, was launched and delivered to owners Kjaersgaard Hirtshals Ltd on 8 May 2009
The new vessel replaces the owners previous vessels ”Tobis”, ”Galeota” and ”Pion”. In addition to before mentioned, the owners have purchased a number of other vessels in order to give quota to the new vessel.
Behind the owning company are brothers John & Niels Kjaersgaard, Hirtshals, who will alternate as skippers on the new vessel – trip-on, trip-off. The 2 brothers have taken a very active part of the planning and building of the new vessel.
The owners ideas of optimizing the value of the quota at hand, has resulted in quite a few “firsts” for a Danish white fish trawler, to name a few:
Fileting machine: The vessel is equipped with a Baader 212 filtering machine, which will head-, gut and filet in same machine.
