American Seafoods, Murmansk contracts for Naust

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This year has been another good year for orders of Naust Marine’s (NM) Automatic Trawl Winch System (ATW) and its AutoGen system for automatic power management of generators, said the company.

NM has been supplying its ATWs to Murmansk’s Monzund type trawlers.

The Iceland-based manufacturer of control equipment for electrical winches is currently fulfilling an order of ATW systems to American Seafoods (AMS) in Seattle. AMS is renewing the trawl winches in its trawler Northern Eagle, which is a 105m long freezer trawler. It is changing from hydraulic trawl winches to electrical trawl winches.

NM will supply two towing winches, and two net sounder winches from Ibercisa in Spain. All control for these winches are from NM in Iceland. In addition, AMS is installing electrical spooling gear (ESG).

“We have had good feedback to our latest products, including the ESG for towing winches. The system can be modified to most winch types and is for improving the spooling, where towing wire or rope has variable diameter. It can also handle wire with splice etc,” a Naust spokesman told WF.

NM is also providing and installing a Symap power management system from Stucke Electronik GbmH for generator protection and power management. Once in place, all the ship’s generators can be synchronised to work on the same net.

Murmansk Trawl Fleet has also bought two ATW systems, one has already been delivered on board Admiral Starikov and another will be delivered to an as yet unnamed vessel this year.

NM explained both vessels are Monzund type trawlers. These vessels are 123m long and were built between the years of 1987 and 1993 in Stralsund, Germany.

A total of 35 trawlers were built in Stralsund, and Naust had already installed ATWs in seven of those vessels so far, prior to the new contract for two more. Many of these vessels have also installed AutoGen for power management system for generator protection.

Naust is optimistic that sales in 2011 will be as strong as this year because the company said there are many ship owners that are planning to rebuild their vessels and to change from hydraulic to electric winches, as they are perceived to be more power efficient and environmentally friendly.