The Tranquility Fishing Company has taken delivery of a new 27.55 metre by 8 metre beam seine netter built at the Vestværft yard in Denmark. Tranquillity LK-63 is the company’s first newbuilding, and follows the older boat the seven co-owners started out with in 2008, and its 2010 replacement.
Skagen shipyard Karstensens Skibsværft has established its own construction base for producing hulls in Poland, and in addition to setting up its own company, it has acquired production facilities from Vistal Offshore in Gdynia, a modern facility built in 2013.
Guiding Light became the latest symbol of marine industry optimism, as the new trawler departed from the Parkol Marine Engineering shipyard in Whitby. One of the key features to its operation is a commitment to new, greener fishing methods.
There’s plenty going on at Macduff Shipyards these days, with the latest in the yard’s roster of newbuilds coming closer to completion.
The partly-outfitted trawler Ora et Labora has been launched by Szczecin yard PTS for delivery to Vestvaerftet in Denmark.
The Hoekman Shipbuilding yard in Urk and the Padmos yard in Stellendam have confirmed that two new twin riggers have been ordered for Dutch owners, to be built on the same lines as the experimental MDV-1 that was built in 2016 for Urk owners.
Parkol Marine Engineering signed order for two new fishing vessels at the Skipper International Exhibition in Aberdeen. The Whitby yard already has a healthy orderbook, but two orders were signed at the company’s stand at the exhibition today.
Swedish pelagic trawler Clipperton was delivered by the Karstensens yard at Skagen in Denmark earlier this month. The new vessel has been built for B-C Pelagic, which brings together two long-established pelagic operators, the Jansson and the Backman/Malmborg families.
The Jobi Værft yard in Jutland has looked after five different boats over the years for Strandby fisherman Ejner Klitlund, so when he and his son Rasmus were looking at building a new vessel, they naturally went to the Jobi yard.
The unusual name of the latest new trawler to join the Skagen fleet isn’t a spelling mistake – but all the same, it has called for more than a few explanations from skipper and owner Christian Pilegaard.