Dutch shipbuilder Thecla Bodewes Shipyards has won a contract from Navigare Shipping, a family-owned shipping company from the Faroe Islands, for four general cargo ships. The GADUS 5600, designed by Thecla Bodewes Shipyards, features diesel-electric propulsion. The ships will have the same...
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Deliveries include a feed barge for the Faroe Islands and a bleeding and service boat for a Norwegian fish harvester. A Norwegian operator christens the newest addition to its trawl fleet as sea trials kick off for a coastal seining vessel and a landing craft workboat to be deployed in Scotland....
Mowi has taken delivery of a new feed barge that will support its salmon harvesting activities in the Faroe Islands. The barge was built by GroAqua and has a silo capacity of 1,000 tonnes. Fitted with 16 feeding lines, the 39-by-13-metre barge will help optimise feeding by having one feeding line...
Mest Shipyard in the Faroe Islands has signed a contract to build a new freezer trawler for Faroese fishing company Vardin. It is expected to be the first of three built for Faroese operators with the second two being jointly owned by Vardin and Framrherij. Designed by Mest in close collaboration with Vardin, the first vessel is expected to be delivered in mid-2026. With a length of 44.15 meters and a breadth of 11.6 meters, the vessel has a freezing capacity of 40 tonnes per day.
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Best Feed Barge – 485-tonne feed barge – GroAqua Fish farm support vessels are, of necessity, becoming larger as they have to operate ever further offshore. Faroe Islands based designer/builder GroAqua has considerable experience with such vessels. This 485-tonne feed barge illustrates its talents...
Skansi Offshore has secured a contract with Norwegian mid-to-late-life operator OKEA for one of its platform supply vessels. The Faroe Islands-based PSV specialist that lists five ships in its fleet has fixed the 2009-built 3,788 dwt Eldborg for six months. The contract is most likely to start this...
Best Large Wellboat – Bakkafossur – Knud E Hansen As the global fish farming industry matures it requires larger, more efficient and more seaworthy service vessels to facilitate its inevitable move further offshore. This fine new vessel, from the renowned designers at Denmark’s Knud E.Hansen,...
Faroe Islands-based fishing company JFK has taken delivery of a new freezer trawler built to a design by Norwegian naval architecture firm Skipsteknisk for operation in Arctic waters. The DNV-classed Gadus has a length of 88.1 metres, a beam of 18.3 metres, a draught of 7.9 metres, a gross tonnage...
Iceland-based fish farming company Háafell recently acquired a new feed barge that will support its salmon harvesting activities in the north-western part of the country. Built by Faroe Islands-based GroAqua, the barge is designed to be operated at exposed sites with a feed system and space for six...
Faroe Islands-based fishing company Havborg recently took delivery of a new stern trawler that also has fish processing facilities. Emerald was designed by Norwegian naval architecture firm Skipsteknisk in compliance to DNV class rules. The newbuild has an LOA of 87.53 metres, a moulded beam of 18...