A shipment of bright red fish tubs has arrived in the Icelandic port of Seyðisfjörður, specially made for fresher trawler Gullver.
The consignment of tubs has been specially made by Sæplast, the colour chosen to match Gullver’s hull – and also because nobody else in Iceland uses red tubs.
According to Gullver’s parent company Síldarvinnslan, disappearing tubs is a constant problem, and even though Gullver’s tubs have in the past been marked clearly with the trawler’s name, this hasn’t stopped people borrowing them.
“You can see tubs marked with the Gullver name everywhere, used for all sorts of purposes and often simply for rubbish. We’re hoping that the red colour means there’s less likelihood of the tubs being stolen,” commented a Síldarvinnslan spokesman.
This isn’t the first time the company has gone down this route, as its subsidiary Bergur-Huginn in the Westmann Islands recently invested in a set of distinctive green tubs for its trawlers Vestmannaey and Bergey, in the hope that this would reduce the number of tubs going astray. This appears to have been a successful strategy as the number of tubs going missing has dropped.
Bergur-Huginn’s managing director Magnús Kristinsson said that the way people treat tubs can be unbelievable, as while people’s property is normally respected, this doesn’t seem to apply to fish tubs. He commented that there is nothing unusual about people grabbing tubs for their own businesses and while sometime they grind the name off, frequently they don’t even bother to do that.
