Copenhagen shipbroker Atlantic Shipping has been instrumental is brokering the deal to build two new trawlers for Cuxhaven fishing company Kutterfisch, locating a suitable yard and designs, and negotiating contracts.
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra to skipper/owner Steinar Sandnes who fishes from Napp in the Lofoten Islands.
PrimKrab, the crab fishing subsidiary of the Russian Fishery Company, has signed an agreement with design company Nautic Rus to develop a design for a new type of crabbing vessel. The new design is to be delivered within two months and a decision on the final design will be made once the project has been approved.
The three fishing vessels designed to operate in Newfoundland for their Canadian owner are being built at the Ha Long shipyard in Vietnam, with the first of the three launched ready for fitting out, with delivery scheduled for August this year.
The Nodosa yard at Marín in north-western Spain has launched a new freezer trawler that will join the Falklands fleet later this year.
Norwegian salmon producer Alsaker Fjordbruk at Onarheim has contracted a new live fish carrier with a design package provided by Salt Ship Design. The vessel will be built by Astilleros de Murueta in Spain and will be delivered in 2020.
‘We can safely say that everything has gone like clockwork since we took delivery of the ship. The trial strips went well and it didn’t take long for everything to be working as it should. We’ve had two trips to the Westfjords fishing grounds and we had practically a full fishroom each time,’ said Jóhannes Ellert Eiríksson, known to everyone simply as Elli, skipper of HB Grandi’s new trawler Viðey.
Vard has contract to build a new 80 metre LOA by 17 metre breadth trawler for Nergård Havfiske AS, based in the north of Norway. The hull will be built at Vard Braila in Romania and the new trawler delivered by Vard Brattvaag early in 2020.
Chantier Naval Croisicais have delivered a new trawler to Charles Jubé and Julien le Cleac’h, launched at the yard in Le Croisic and built to a Coprexma design.
The Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad has launched the third pelagic vessel in a series of three being constructed for the Lenin Fishing Collective Farm in the Russian Far East. The trio are being built to an SK-3101R design by Norwegian company Skipskompetanse.