Macduff delivers Forever Faithful
The latest delivery from Macduff Shipyards is the new Forever Faithful PD-289, delivered to Andrew West of St Fergus.
The latest delivery from Macduff Shipyards is the new Forever Faithful PD-289, delivered to Andrew West of St Fergus.
Two Rolls-Royce-designed stern trawlers have contracted to be built by the Freire Shipyard in Spain for Greenland companies Qajaq Trawl and the other by Polar Seafood.
Riga Shipyard in Latvia has been building ships since 1913, and since the company was restructured in 1997, it has delivered more than 150 vessels to the European market. Its latest was completed in September, with a trawler for owners in Ireland to be finished at the Vestværft yard at Hvide Sande in Denmark.
Building you own boat isn’t for everyone, but Pieter Louwe van Slooten has never been one to turn down a challenge.
A first new coastal trawler for Lorient has been completed at the Socarenam yard in Boulogne for Jean-Pierre Camenen.
Two of HB Grandi’s new demersal trawlers are now in the water, with the third of the new Nautic designed sister ships due to follow shortly, while several other Turkish yards are also busy with newbuilds for operators in Iceland.
The latest newbuilding for the Gitte Henning fleet has been delivered by the Bredgaards Baadeværft in Sakskøbing, with a departure from the company’s usual steel-hulled vessels in favour of glass fibre for the first time.
The hull of the new TA Senior for Akkarfjord fisherman Morten Ingebrigtsen has been delivered to Stadyard at Raudeberg in western Norway from its Polish builder. Completion is planned for the end of this year.
New Zealand fishing company Sealord recently announced an order for the country’s largest and most sophisticated new fishing vessel to be built since the mid-1990s and the order for the deck equipment has gone to Norwegian company Rapp Marine Group.
Havfish has gone to OptimarStette in Ålesund for the factory deck for its new trawler under construction at Vard Søviknes.