Spanish-based fishing group Nuevo Pescanova has embarked on a construction programme for seven new fishing vessels that are scheduled to renew part of its fleets fishing in Namibia and Mozambique.
It’s all about electricity for Naust Marine, based in Iceland, which put all its efforts in to developing electrical winch systems back when hydraulics were king. It turned out that they were right to put their faith in electrical systems, now that virtually every winch manufacturer is moving in this direction.
Built for the Hakvoort family in Urk, the first new beam trawler for more than ten years was delivered last week and is due to leave the Maaskant yard in Stellendam after the weekend to be prepared for its first trip.
Two new Skipasýn-designed fresher trawlers for Icelandic owners Vinnslustöðin and Gunnvör are about to start the 50-60-day delivery trip home to Iceland from the Huanghai yard at Rongcheng in China, via Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suez and Gibraltar.
Every trawler crew knows the work that goes into spooling new warps onto the winch drums. Sometimes it can take days before the warps to sit comfortably under tension and there’s rarely a second chance to get things right. The addition of a warp tensioning machine to the Hampiðjan armoury means that these problems are eliminated.
Based on the principles that went into its Sparrow doors, Injector reports that its new Kiwi doors are fishing well.
Hanstholm fisherman Kim Pedersen has dreamed for almost twenty years of being able to build a new boat. The dream has been shared with his wife, Janni, and it was logical that the new trawler should be named after her, as were his previous boats.
Ålesund fisherman Henning Veibust has ordered a new pelagic vessel from Karstensens in Denmark, boosting the yard’s orderbook of pelagic boats to deliver in the next three years to fifteen, and making the yard a clear leader in this field.
Icelandic trawl door manufacturer Polar Fishing Gear has seen its exports of trawl doors growing over the last year, not least to the Russian Far East where its Mercury, Jupiter and Thor doors are in demand.
A South African research vessel sailed from Cape Town last month on the fifth and final leg of an innovative five-year experiment that is expected to shed light on the contentious subject of trawling and the impact it has on the seabed.