The first of two new trawlers being built for Icelandic owners at the Huanghai yard at Rongcheng in China has undergone successful sea trials, and the two trawlers are now in dry dock for the final sandblasting and painting before both leave for fishing gear trials.
A new venture between a group of Icelandic companies, Knarr Maritime, was officially launched at the Brussels Seafood Global Exhibition this week.
A role has been found for one of the stock beamer hulls that the Maaskant Shipyard has had at its yard for a few years now that the owners of the UK-45 have placed an order for it to be completed. This will be the first new beam trawler from Maaskant for more than ten years.
Norwegian krill manufacturer Rimfrost is responding to the rising global demand for krill oil for human consumption by setting out plans for a new krill catching vessel.
Rory Pitsch, one of the owners of Strongback Metal Boats, has grown up with the boats being built at his father’s workshops and, plus several years as a crewman on a Bristol Bay gillnetter. Both experiences are central to his thinking while building another gillnet boat at the Sedro Woolley, Washington yard.
When the new trawler docked in Akureyri a few days ago after a 4000-nautical mile, 15-day delivery trip from the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey, it was Icelandic fishing company Samherji's first newbuilt vessel to join its fleet for seventeen years.
Technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to provide the propulsion machinery for a new purse seiner/pelagic trawler ordered by Strand Senior AS, a subsidiary of Strand Havfiske AS based in Norway. The order was placed last month and the new vessel will be built at the Karstensens Skibsvaerft shipyard in Denmark.
Havyard Ship Technology in Norway has signed a contract for a new pelagic trawler to be built for French company France Pélagique, with an option for a second vessel.
HB Grandi’s new fresher trawler Engey RE-91 was formally christened at a ceremony in Reykjavík yesterday and the ship is open to the public today (Saturday) from 1300 to 1600.
Norwegian fishing company H Østervold AS is reported to have signed a contract for a new 80.30 metre LOA by 17 metre beam pelagic vessel to be built at the Western Marine Shipyard Ltd in Bangladesh.