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....
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Bakkafrost Scotland’s newest landing craft commences sea trials
A new fish farm workboat ordered by Bakkafrost Scotland recently began undergoing sea trials. Built by Macduff Shipyards to a design by Macduff Ship Design, Rìgh Na Mara is a sister vessel of Turas a ‘Bhradain, which was delivered to the same owner in 2023. The bespoke landing craft will support...
UK firm proposes hydrogen as fuel for fishing vessels
UK-based fisheries technology company Fisheries Innovation and Sustainability (FIS) has released a report on the possibility of utilising hydrogen as fuel for fishing vessels in the UK. Developed in partnership with local naval architecture firm Macduff Ship Design, and with support from Marine...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Prawn Trawler – Zenith – Macduff Ship Design
Best Prawn Trawler – Zenith – Macduff Ship Design Macduff Ship Design fishing boats have charms and attractions all of their own. They are rugged, safe and very economical and long-lasting (as they have to be in Scotland). Built to highly refined designs, they operate in often-terrible weather. In...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Small Trawler – Copious – Macduff Ship Design
Best Small Trawler – Copious – Macduff Ship Design This fine little ship will work for its experienced owners in the bleak, windy and cold waters to the north of Scotland. Macduff Ship Design knows those waters well and this very imaginative new trawler will work very safely, efficiently and...
VESSEL REVIEW | AQS Trym – Hybrid catamaran workboat for Norwegian aquaculture support company
Norwegian aquaculture services company AQS has taken delivery of a new hybrid catamaran workboat optimised for supporting fish farm operations. AQS Trym was designed and built by Norway’s Skagen Ship Consulting in cooperation with UK naval architecture firm Macduff Ship Design and Turkish shipbuilder TRX Marine, though construction took place entirely at TRX Marine’s Yalova […]
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AWARDS 2023 | Best Aquaculture Landing Craft – Turas a ‘Bhradain – Macduff Ship Design
Best Aquaculture Landing Craft – Turas a ‘Bhradain – Macduff Ship Design As with all Macduff Ship Design vessels, this compact but ultra-versatile aquaculture work boat is impressively innovative and beautifully detailed. Practical, simple, economical and rugged, it will serve very well in the remote, cold Scottish lochs where the nation’s economically important salmon farming […]
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Fishing Vessel News Roundup | February 15 – Norwegian fish farm dive boat, UK scalloper and more
Deliveries include a gillnetter and a fish farm workboat to operators in Norway and a factory trawler to a German seafood company. Sea trials have meanwhile been completed on a scallop boat for use in UK waters. Gillnetter delivered to Austevoll owner Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a...
VESSEL REVIEW | PNT Bholu – Pakistan Navy places versatile harbour tug into service
The Pakistan Navy has placed a new ASD harbour tug to provide towing and ship handling support for the service’s other surface vessels. PNT Bholu was built by local company Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works in partnership with UK-based the Tor Group to a design by Scottish naval architecture...
VESSEL REVIEW | River Pearl 10 – Multi-role tug handed over to Indian port services provider
India’s Synergy Shipbuilders has handed over a new ASD tug to local port services provider Knowledge Marine and Engineering Works (KMEW). Built to a design by UK-based naval architecture firm Macduff Ship Design, River Pearl 10 is a multi-role service vessel with a large open working deck aft and a...