The first of a series of innovative new trawlers being built in Norway for Icelandic companies has been launched at Vard’s Aukra yard. According to Bergur-Huginn fleet manager Guðmundur Alfreðsson,…
Russian authorities have approved applications from the Russian Fishery Company to build four fishing vessels and a shore-based processing plant in the Northern region. The company plans to take up…
Two of Royal Greenland’s trawlers are about to leave the company’s fleet as they are due to be replaced shortly with new fishing capacity. The 27-year-old Sisimiut and 17-year-old Qaqqatsiaq…
The first in a series of four 70 metre factory trawlers being built by the Leningrad Pella Shipyard has been shifted out of the construction hall ahead of its launch…
‘It hasn’t been an easy trip, although we can say that when the weather has been decent, so has the fishing.Right now it’s blowing hard, a real storm, and we’re…
Construction work has begun on the second in the series of new trawlers for Russian fishing group Norebo, with the keel laid at the Severnaya (Northern) Shipyard in St Petersburg.…
HB Grandi’s fresher trawlers have been fishing more on south-western fishing grounds than earlier this winter. The winter season is about to begin, with the usual excellent quality cod and saithe to be found on the trawlers’ home grounds to the south-west of Iceland.
Naust Marine has delivered the first of a set of winches and control systems for Dutch seine netter/twin-riggers under construction at the Nodosa shipyard in Spain.
Strandby shipyard Jobi Værft has signed a contract for a modern whitefish trawler outfitted with the latest technology for Skagen company Elin Aps which will also make the move to Hirtshals with its new vessel.
The two fresher trawlers operated by Síldarvinnslan subsidiary Bergur-Huginn continue to fish well, while their replacements take shape at the Vard shipyard in Norway.