Norwegian fishing company Nergård Havfiske has celebrated the christening of its latest factory trawler at the quayside in Tromsø, with sister vessels Breidtind and Senja alongside with the new Sørkapp after the trio sailed into the port in a line.
Lisa Marie Grøndahl cracked the traditional bottle of champagne against the new trawler’s plates to welcome Sørkapp to the Nergård fleet.
Sørkapp was delivered at the end of last year to Nergård Havfiske and has six months of operation already behind it.
Completed at Vard’s Brattvaag yard on a hull built at Vard Braila in Romania, and with a roughly NoK500 million price tag, this is the latest in a series of three 80-metre, 17-metre beam factory trawlers Vard has delivered to Nergård in recent years.
These are outfitted with the yard’s own catch handling systems that include live fish storage on board to keep catches in prime condition pre-processing, and ensilage tanks for storing offal and offcuts, ensuring that production is zero-waste.
Vard Electro delivered a complete SeaQ package, which brings a high level of automation to the vessel’s management. The flexible SeaQ Integrated Bridge integrates maritime systems easily and intuitively, focusing on optimisation of the operator’s workstation with options to store preferred setups.
The SeaQ package includes SeaQ Micro Grid, SeaQ Energy Storage System, SeaQ Power Management System, SeaQ Integrated Automation System, and SeaQ Green Pilot systems. These provide a full performance overview for managing operations with the aim of power optimisation for reduced emissions.
The cranes and winches have been delivered by Seaonics. These have high dynamic performance, and during shooting away the winches regenerate power back to the SeaQ Energy Storage System.
