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.
Osprey Group’s new fly-shooter/twin rigged arrived in IJmuiden yesterday after its delivery trip from the Nodosa yard at Marín in Spain.
The second of Icelandic company HB Grandi’s three new fresher trawlers is due to dock in Akranes today.
Jean-Baptiste Goulard only in his early twenties when the owner he was working for at the time gave him the chance he needed to own his own boat. Now he can see that change is needed and has been immersed in the Blue Wave project to develop a new vessel to take the place of the traditional groundfish trawler fishing from Brittany, and the first of these new trawlers is about to start taking shape.