Vessels & Shipyards

The Government of Angola has awarded a contract for the construction of 210 fishing and general missions’ coastal boats to the Spanish company ARESA Boats.

Solstrand AS has won a contract with Olympic Prawns in Fosnavåg, Norway, to build a multi-functional stern trawler.

Aas Mek Verksted has released details of new contracts with Bømlo Brønnbåtservce AS, Norway, for two new live fish carriers.

In July 2007, Sapmer ordered three new tuna purse seiners from Piriou.

The Galician shipyard, MCíes, is in the second phase of development of the planes of the two oceanographics that it is constructing for the Spanish Institute of Oceanography.

Cape Verdean shipyard, Estaleiros Navais de Cabo Verde (Cabnave), is to be re-launched with the support of Chinese company China (Overseas) Fisheries Co (CNFC), according to Macauhub.

Icelands Naust Marine reports its first Alaskan sale of electrical winches on the Bristol Explorer for B&N fisheries in Seattle. The trawler fishes pollock in the Bering Sea.

Rapp Hydema from Norway says that its goal is to introduce a new software version for their auto trawl system, PTS Pentagon, once a year at minimum.

Bedford-based Inventive Marine Products (IMP) in Canada is doing good business selling pumps, not just for unloading vessels and harvesting salmon but for shrimp, squid and sprat. It has just delivered a…