Built at the Vard Braila yard in Romania and completed at the shipbuilder’s Brattvaag yard, Sørkapp is a sophisticated modern factory trawler – and comes with a roughly NOK 500 million price tag.
It’s the latest in a trio of sophisticated factory trawlers designed to catch and process groundfish on board. The first, Senja, was delivered in early 2020 and was followed two years later by Breidtind. The fleet is completed by Sørkapp, and all three are built to Vard’s 8 02 design, developed by Vard Design in Ålesund.
This series of 80-metre, 17-metre beam factory trawlers Vard has been outfitted with the yard’s own catch handling systems that include live fish storage on board to keep catches in prime condition pre-processing, and ensilage tanks for storing offal and offcuts, ensuring that production is zero-waste.
Vard Electro has delivered a complete SeaQ package, which brings a high level of automation to the vessel’s management. The flexible SeaQ Integrated Bridget integrates maritime systems easily and intuitively, focusing on optimisation of the operator’s workstation with options to store preferred setups.
The SeaQ package includes SeaQ Micro Grid, SeaQ Energy Storage System, SeaQ Power Management System, SeaQ Integrated Automation System, and SeaQ Green Pilot systems. These provide a full performance overview for managing operations with the aim of power optimisation for reduced emissions.
Nergård brought in Ålesund supplier Seaonics to deliver the electric deck machinery systems for all three trawlers, with four trawl winches to tow three trawls, in addition to the bank of sweepline winches at the head of the full-length trawl deck and a suite of smaller deck winches, plus Seaonics deck cranes.
The company states that these winches offer a superior dynamic performance at all wire layers, and electric winch systems offer better shooting and hauling speeds, while also regenerating energy back to the SeaQ Energy Storage System when shooting away.
