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The Russian Fishery Company (RRPK) has completed the preparatory stage for the construction of the Russian Mintai fish processing plant in the Nadezhdinskaya Tor region in Primorsky Krai.
Russian Fishery Company (RFC) continues to invest in modernising its fleet of factory vessels, most recently with upgraded processing decks providing improved production capacities and capabilities to produce higher-grade products.
The Vyborg Shipyard has launched the first in a series of factory trawlers being built at the yard for Russian fishing companies under the investment quotas initiative.
The Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Verf) in St Petersburg has formally laid the keel of the lead vessel in a series of six for Russian fishing company Rybprominvest JSC, part of the Norebo Group. With its innovative layout, the new trawler is designed to have capacity for 1200 tonnes of frozen products, 334 tonnes of fishmeal and 95 tonnes of canned production.
Icelandic company Valka has signed a contract with Murman Seafood Company to design and build a new processing plant in Kola city, south of the Russian port of Murmansk. This new plant is the first of its kind and is expected to be the most technologically advanced groundfish processing plant in the region.
The keel of a new factory trawler for Atlantrybflot, part of the FOR Group, has been laid at a ceremony at the Vyborg Shipyard. The 80.40 metre by 15.40 metre breadth trawler is the latest in a series under construction, built to a Skipsteknisk design.
As the larger end of the Russian fishing fleet has been receiving government support in the form of investment quotas, The Federal Agency for Fisheries and the Ministry of Trade and Industry have been discussing ways to encourage renewal of smaller-scale fishing vessels.
The Wärtsilä technology group is providing the design for a unique catcher-processor vessel to be built at the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad, and which will operate in the Russian Far East. This vessel will be capable of fishing for its own production as well as taking catches from other vessels.
The Tersan Shipyard at Yalova in Turkey has started construction of the lead vessel in a series of crabbers for Russian company JSC Arktikservice, as part of the ST184 project. The new vessel is a Skipsteknisk design, developed with Marine Engineering Bureau.
The Pella shipyard, based in St Petersburg, has signed an Investment Project Implementation Agreement with the regional administration in Russia’s Primorye region to establish shipbuilding capacity in the Far East.