Vessels & Shipyards

Wärtsilä will supply a propulsion and power package for a new 75m long fishing trawler being built at Karstensens shipyard in Denmark for Scottish owners and operators Wiseman Fishing Co and Northbay…

Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide the ship design for a new krill fishing vessel for Shanghai Chonghe Marine Industry (CMI).

Three years of planning have gone into new twin-rigger Virtuous FR-253, delivered by Parkol Marine Engineering to father-and-son team Sandy and Alexander West who fish for prawns from Fraserburgh, reports Dave Moore.

The Nueva Pescanova Group has launched the third vessel of its new fleet and the second of three 50m long wetfish ships that are being built for hake fishing by the Group’s…

New Whalsay pelagic vessel Charisma started its fishing career with a couple of quickfire trips mackerel trips west of Shetland, reports Dave Moore.

An order placed by a UK partnership brings the orderbook of pelagic vessels to be delivered by Ksrstensens Skibsværft in the new few years to ten.

Fishing vessel owner Jérôme Cabaret, based at St Brieuc in the north of Brittany, has taken delivery of new trawler Anthémis from the Piriou yard in Concarneau.

Tersan Shipyard has signed a new contract for a second freezer stern trawler with JSC Okeanrybflot Russia.

The last of the trio of multi-purpose fishing vessels built at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad for RK Lenina in the Russian Far East is now undergoing trials.

Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) is converting a platform supply vessel into a fish feed carrier for Norwegian fish feed distributor, Eidsvaag.

Nueva Pescanova Group has seen off its new trawler Ponta Matirre, which is now on route to Mozambique where it will for fish the company’s Pescamar subsidiary.

Piriou has just delivered three new longliners to Noumea in New Caledonia.

Tersan Shipyard has signed the contract for its 99th new vessel to be built for Rimfrost in cooperation with Westcon Shipyard.

The latest delivery by Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar is a 15 metre shelterdecked autoliner for owners in Myre in Norway.

Belgian family fishing company Rederij Long Ships has contracted Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam to build a new 38-metre long beam trawler to a new Maaskant BT3808 design, modified to deliver an additional…

Icelandic ship design company Skipasýn ehf. has developed a design for a 66 metre filleter freezer trawler. A contract has been signed for the first vessel, Baldvin Njálsson, to be commissioned for…

The Tersan Shipyard has delivered a pair new longliners to Norwegian fishing company Ervik Havfiske.

Geraldton-based David Perham is the latest operator from Australia’s Western Rock Lobster fishery to order a new ?lobster boat from Dongara Marine.

Schottel will supply thrusters to the world’s largest live fish carrier (LFC) as well as a 67m longliner, under construction in Turkey and due to be delivered to Norwegian owners.

Built for Urk-based fishing company EkoFish, now with the majority of its shares held by pelagic freezer operator van der Zwan, Spes Nova UK-205 was christened at a ceremony in Scheveningen.