{"id":533,"date":"2018-07-11T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2018\/07\/11\/havyard-587-build-for-norsk-fisketransport\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:29:14","slug":"havyard-587-build-for-norsk-fisketransport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/havyard-587-build-for-norsk-fisketransport\/","title":{"rendered":"Havyard 587 build for Norsk Fisketransport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norsk Fisketransport (NFT) already owns <em>Havtrans<\/em>, <em>Namsos<\/em>, and <em>Steigen<\/em>. The new live fish carrier NFT has ordered will be Havyard\u2019s build no 147 and it will be identical to build no 127, <em>Steigen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely satisfied with Steigen, which was christened in June at a big public ceremony in Steigen,\u201d said Oddleif Wigdahl, CEO of NFT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no need to change a recipe that has already proved successful! Choosing Havyard again was not a difficult decision: Good cooperation, high quality and an end product that is exactly how we want it,\u201d added Mr Wigdahl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete package<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of Havyard\u2019s business areas will contribute to the delivery. Fish handling (MMC First Process) will deliver the onboard fish handling system. Power &amp; control (Norwegian Electric Systems and Norwegian Control Systems) will deliver everything from the bridge to the propeller. Ship design &amp; solutions is responsible for the design and shipbuilding technology will equip the vessel together with production &amp; services.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Havyard Group, Geir Johan Bakke, stated: \u201cBuilding a live fish carriers is complicated, and we had some technical challenges when we built Namsos for NFT, but this in turn resulted in the highly successful Steigen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that NFT now wants a sister ship that is a carbon copy of Steigen, speaks volumes about how good the resulting vessel was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding these new live fish carriers means developing lots of new technology and making adaptations to make the vessel as functional as possible and to ensure excellent fish welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NFT has until summer 2019 to decide on commissioning another vessel of Havyard 587 design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havyard Group has signed a contract with Norsk Fisketransport (NFT) for the June 2020 delivery of a live fish carrier of Havyard 587 design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}