New longliner for Norwegian owners
Vaagland Båtbyggeri is to build a new longliner for Seir AS, based at Grytastranda in western Norway.
Vaagland Båtbyggeri is to build a new longliner for Seir AS, based at Grytastranda in western Norway.
Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra to Finmark skipper and owner Per Birger Persen.
The Jobi yard at Strandby in Denmark has contracted to build a 23.75 metre trawler for father and son Ejner and Rasmus Klitlund, replacing their existing vessel with the newbuild scheduled for completion at the end of 2017.
ECOREP-Piriou has signed an order for a catamaran for the Eurl Zizou fish farm at Chlef in Algeria. This boat is scheduled for delivery in June 2017 in Ténès.
The Vyborg Shipyard, located north of St Petersburg, has contracted to build four ST-116XL trawlers for Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet.
Orders for electric winch systems for two pelagic vessels on order at the Karstensen yard in Skagen have gone to Rapp Marine.
The Simek yard’s first newbuild fishing vessel since 2008 has been launched and christened last week. In recent years the yard at Flekkefjord in southern Norway has focused on the oil and gas industry, but with the downturn in that sector, Simek has returned to its roots in fishing.
Chinese operator Pingtan Marine Enterprise has two brand new squid jigging vessels and these are set to start fishing in the S-W Atlantic and S-E Pacific.
When R. Bodey was looking for a new salmon tender for the Yukon River, he had a set of plans drawn up by Tullio Celano based on a boat he had owned some years before, and then took the plans to WCT Marine’s shipyard at Tongue Point on the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon.
The 24 metre trawler was built in Nelson by the Aimex Service Group, which has for many years also been the Rapp Marine agent for New Zealand and Australia.