The delivery of a new coastal fishing vessel being built at Vestværft for owners in Norway has been put back from September this year to May 2019 due to an angry exchange of correspondence concerning the new vessel’s cargo volume.
The delay appears to be due to a lack of clarity over the new vessel’s cargo volume and the Directorate of Fisheries is reported to have delayed the case. Owners Knut Olav AS have applied for an extension to the general replacement licence required for replacing an older vessel with new tonnage, and the completion of the new Knut Olav is now inevitably delayed by several months.
Knut Olav has been ordered from Vestværft in Denmark and the order is worth €9.50 million.
The 34.85 metre by 9.80 metre Knut Olav is designed as a highly sophisticated coastal fishing vessel intended for seine netting and purse seining. It has a pump system for pumping fish from the fishing gear into to six RSW tanks with a combined 400 cubic metre capacity, in which fish can be held alive.
