A relaxation in Norwegian regulations allowing a wider choice of fishing methods made it possible for the owners of new longliner Atlantic to include capacity for seine netting in the…
The first new vessel of its size for Icelandic fishing company Vísir has docked in its home port of Grindavík after steaming for six days from the Alkor yard in…
The second stage of a three-part programme of delivering new longliners to New Caledonia fishing company Navimon has been completed by Piriou. The series of eight new vessels replace an…
The already successful combination of Norwegian naval architect Marin Teknikk and the Tersan Shipyard in Turkey have been selected to build a freezer longliner for an unnamed international customer. The…
The Martinez shipyard at Saint Cyprien in southern France has delivered a unique 18 metre LOA, 8.50 metre beam catamaran for Sète fishing company Armement Avallone. The GRP-hulled Deux Frères…
Severnaya Verf (part of Russia’s largest shipbuilding group United Shipbuilding Corporation) has launched Gandvik-1, the first of three processor longliners for fishing company Virma, part of the Karelian Fishing Fleet…
When longliner Einar Guðnason was wrecked on the rocks just outside the fishing village of Suðureyri in north-west Iceland last month, its loss was a severe blow for local processor…
Longliner Páll Jónsson GK-7, the first new vessel of its size to be delivered to operating company Vísir in its 50-year history, has been christened and handed over by the…
Norwegian longline fishing company Ervik Havfiske has taken delivery of two new sister vessels built at the Tersan Shipyard in Turkey. The Marin Teknikk-designed Frøyanes Junior and Vestkapp are the…
Sem Solil subsidiary Navimon, New Caledonia’s main fishing company, has placed an order with Piriou for the last three new longliners in a series of eight for fishing in New…