Rolls-Royce will design a 70m long stern trawler for Olympic Seafood and provide an extensive range of equipment for the vessel.
The new vessel for Norway-based Olympic Seafood is designed for bottom trawling as well as pelagic trawling. It will have a modern factory deck arrangement to handle and freeze both white fish and shrimp and to ensure a high quality catch. The vessel will be of type NVC 370 with a low resistant hull design which meets increased demands for fuel efficiency combined with good sea keeping.
Monrad Hide, Rolls-Royce, vice president of sales, said: “We’ve designed a highly efficient trawler that will be equipped with a package of power and propulsion, electrical and automation systems that will deliver benefits to both the owner and the environment, as well as safety and good working conditions for the crew.”
Key equipment
Rolls-Royce equipment will include the B33:45 diesel engine. A hybrid propulsion system can deliver both a mechanical and diesel-electric drive for the Promas integrated rudder and propeller system. The Hybrid Shaft Generator (HSG) ensure optimum propeller and engine efficiency by running both at their most efficient point. Rolls-Royce will also deliver its latest deck winches, driven by a permanent magnet electric motor.
The vessel is due to be delivered in 2020 by Cemre shipyard in Turkey, which also holds a contracted option for a second vessel of the same type for Olympic Seafood.
Shipowner Stig Remøy said: “This is a new and modern generation of trawler. The planning and design has been conducted under the headline Smarter, Greener and Safer. Low energy consumption and reduced emissions make the concept a perfect fit for our strategy of sustainable ocean harvesting.”
