Norwegian operator DESS Aquaculture Shipping AS has ordered new live fish carriers based on a design developed by Salt Ship Design. The vessels will be built by Sefine shipyard in Turkey, with the first two vessels to be delivered in 2019 and the contract includes options for two more vessels.
The new trawler for Clogherhead owner Niall Connolly has been launched at the PTS yard at Szczecin in Poland.
Newbuilding Division of Nauta Shiprepair Yard has begun construction of a partly outfitted fishing vessel B-131 with a steel cutting ceremony held on July 4th. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the client, the shipowner and classification society.
French fishing company Armement Cherbourgeois is expecting its first new trawler to be delivered in September this year by the Socarenam yard on Boulogne, and the company has already placed an order for a sister vessel.
A new crabber/autoliner delivered to Jens Kristian Friis-Salling is the third newbuild for Greenland to be delivered by Vestværft this year.
The first of three new combination seine netters/trawlers for owners in Boulogne is about to be handed over by the Padmos shipyard in time for its christening ceremony in Boulogne next week.
With the fishing industry in Russia going through reform and modernisation, the fleet being renewed long with port infrastructure and logistics, supply and the balance of imports and exports is set to change, according to the head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ilya Shestakov.
The Lundberg family who fish from Gratangen in Norway have ordered a new pelagic trawler/purse seiner for delivery in 2019 from Karstensens in Skagen.
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar’s latest delivery is a Cleopatra 33, now on its way to the island of Mausund, just outside Trondheim in Norway.
A generational shift is taking place in Thorsminde, with skipper John Christensen preparing to step back as his son Lehnert and cousin Brian Kjergård prepare to take over, just as a new trawler/flyshooter is prepared for delivery next year.