{"id":6563,"date":"2015-07-21T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2015\/07\/21\/hb-grandi-hands-ingunn-over-to-new-owners\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:00:39","slug":"hb-grandi-hands-ingunn-over-to-new-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/hb-grandi-hands-ingunn-over-to-new-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"HB Grandi hands \u2018Ingunn\u2019 over to new owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new owner has renamed the vessel <i>\u00cdsleifur VE<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of <i>Ingunn<\/i> is part of the overall renewal of the HB Grandi fleet. New vessel <i>Venus NS<\/i> has replaced <i>Ingunn,<\/i> and in December <i>Faxi RE<\/i> will also be handed over to VSV.<\/p>\n<p>At around the same time the new <i>V\u00edkingur AK<\/i> is expected to be delivered &#8211; the second of the company\u2019s newbuilds under construction in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s plans are to operate only two pelagic vessels in future and <i>Lundey NS<\/i> will be laid up when <i>V\u00edkingur<\/i> arrives.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ingunn<\/i> was built in 2000 for HB Grandi in Akranes and has always been a top catcher. It has been skippered throughout its career by Gudlaugur J\u00f3nsson, now skipper of <i>Venus<\/i>. <i>Ingunn<\/i>\u2019s handover was sealed with a handshake between skipper Gudlaugur J\u00f3nsson and Helgi Geir Vilhj\u00e1lmsson, who will skipper the ship opposite Eyj\u00f3lfur Gudj\u00f3nsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, HB Grandi vessel \u2018Ingunn AK\u2019 was handed over to its new owners, Vinnslust\u00f6\u00f0in \u00ed Vestmannaeyjum (VSV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","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=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}