It’s been a few years since Henning Kjeldsen decided he’d had enough and that it was time to get out of the fishing business. Now he’s back, announcing on social media that he has acquired pelagic vessel Themis.
A few years ago, he made an exit from the pelagic business, selling off quotas and also a partially built pelagic vessel under construction at the Zamakona yard in Spain, which has since become Isafold, fishing successfully for its Hirtshals owners who took over the project part-way through the build of this highly innovative vessel.
At the time, Henning Kjeldsen announced that he was stepping out due to political pressure, pointing the finger of blame squarely at figures within the Social Democratic and the Danish People’s parties, as he stated that he was disposing of all of his pelagic fishing rights as well as the part-built Gitte Henning, the latest in a long series to carry the name.
But it’s not the last… as he announced in a short social media statement that Themis S-144 is to become Gitte Henning S-349.
The 63-metres, 12.80-metre breadth Themis was built in 2018 by Karstensen for the Ryberg family from the Swedish island of Rörö. The vessel has Danish registration and has been operated by a Danish company, Themis Fiskeri, as it has pursued both industrial and consumption fisheries.
Powered by a 2999kW MaK 6M32C main engine driving a 3800mm diameter Caterpillar propeller via a Scana Volda reduction gear, Themis has twin 600kW auxiliaries and a 2500kW shaft generator. It has carrying capacity for 1480 tonnes in its RSW tanks.
