Damen’s first Fishing Seminar, held in Cape Town, has been heralded a great success, with more than 60 participants attending from a broad cross-section of the industry, including the five major South African fishing companies.
The Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Verf) in St Petersburg has formally laid the keel of the lead vessel in a series of six for Russian fishing company Rybprominvest JSC, part of the Norebo Group. With its innovative layout, the new trawler is designed to have capacity for 1200 tonnes of frozen products, 334 tonnes of fishmeal and 95 tonnes of canned production.
Gael Force Group has acquired a 75% stake in the Corpach Boatbuilding Company in a strategically significant move which could strengthen the West of Scotland’s boat building industry and see the introduction of steel feed barge building on the West coast.
The Nauta Shipyard at Gdansk in Poland has sent a couple of large new fishing vessels down the ways and into the water, with partly-outfitted hulls launched for completion at yards in Norway and Denmark.
Damen will hold its first Fishing Seminar in Cape Town on 22nd November in recognition of this important industry. To be held at Damen Shipyards Cape Town, the event brings together leading companies, the government and other stakeholders.
A very familiar figure to the Dutch and UK fishing industries in particular, Frits van Dongen has retired after a forty-year career at the Maaskant Shipyard in Stellendam, and at a 70th birthday party for the yard held at the yard last weekend, friends, staff and many customers gathered to wish him well, and to welcome new director Eric Moerkerk.
The Pella shipyard, based in St Petersburg, has signed an Investment Project Implementation Agreement with the regional administration in Russia’s Primorye region to establish shipbuilding capacity in the Far East.
The Machinefabriek Luyt yard at Den Oever has been contracted to deliver a new 35.25 metre beam trawler for UK company Waterdance. The keel of the new trawler is due to be laid at the Ibis yard in Holland at the beginning of September and the completed hull is scheduled to be delivered next spring to Den Oever for fitting out.
The covered dry dock in Hirtshals unexpectedly took on a 45° list on Friday, with a Norwegian pelagic vessel inside. Work is in progress to right the dock as soon as possible.
Longliner Sævík left Iceland last year and was towed to Gdansk, emerging as a practically new fishing vessel ready to replace one of operating company Vísir’s older longliners.