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.
Skipper Jón Valgeirsson of Icelandic fresher trawler Bergey said that he has seen his warps spooled perfectly onto the trawler’s drums for the first time now that Hampiðjan has introduced its new wire tensioner.
Hampiðjan’s Westmann Islands branch opened in March this year and began trading in April, with everything required for maintaining fishing gear, as well as a product range that includes lifting equipment, protective gear and survival suits.
Scantrol’s Deep Vision is one of the three nominees for Nor-Fishing’s Innovation Award, due to be awarded today.
The new Executioner, built at the Chantier Naval Forillon yard at Gaspé in Quebec has started its fishing career by taking its snow crab quota.
According to managing director Helge Hammersland, Norwegian company Scantrol’s core business for the last 25 years has been fishing, and the company is now strengthening its team to meet anticipated rising demand for its products.
According to Vónin sales manager Søren Havmand, the company’s specially developed Fortis netting was first used to meet specific requirements for some Norwegian trawlers.
Gerda Maria was the breakthrough to the Norwegian market with a 2016 metre trawl made from Capto for the 2015 blue whiting season, Jógvan S Jacobsen at Vónin’s pelagic division said.
Work on all three of HB Grandi’s new trawlers is proceeding at full speed at the Celiktrans yard in Turkey since Ramadan ended. According to marine superintendent Thórarinn Sigurbjörnsson, there is no firm date for delivery of the first of the trio, but the engine and equipment trials will be taking place shortly, and the gensets will be started up for the first time on Monday.