Geir ÞH-150 performs best in quality assessment

The names of the 10 ships or exporters that perform the best in the assessment, and therefore managed to sell their products at a premium price, are published each year.

According to the 2010 assessment, Geir ÞH-150 performed the best out of all the nominated boats of the year. The catch fulfilled the quality assessment requirements in all cases.

The overall score was extremely good, with a considerable difference between the results for Geir ÞH-150 and the ship that came in second place.

Geir ÞH-150 is equipped with OPTIM-ICE liquid ice machines from OPTIMAR Iceland.

In 2008 it was decided that it would be desirable to increase the awareness of sellers, as well as buyers, of the quality of Icelandic container fish.

This was followed by the creation of the standard quality assessment that gives sellers and buyers information on who is performing the best.

In this way, an improved system for buyers to identify and reward those which performed best was created.

The evaluation explores four quality factors: icing, finishing in containers, colour and smell of the gills and appearance of the eyes. In each class there is the possibility of three grades, 1, 2 or 3 - with 1 being the best. The best possible total score is 4 and the worst possible is 12.

Jónas S Jóhannsson, owner and skipper of Geir ÞH-150, has confirmed that since his boat started using OPTIM-ICE liquid ice machines, high levels of work efficiency have been achieved, increasing the quality and value of the catch.

10 top-scoring boats in 2010