Murmansk company Murmanseld2 is currently building four new vessels at the Pella Shipyard in Saint Petersburg - a contract with a value in excess of €160 million.
The company’s three current trawlers, Mirakh, Almak and Alferas, are long-time Scanmar customers and Murmanseld2 has already gone back to Scanmar for systems for its four new trawlers.
Each of the four trawlers is to be fitted with a pair of hydrophones, of which one includes temperature measurement, as well as a Scanbas 365 bridge system with WDR receiver and Sensor Configuration Unit.
The package of sensors includes double distance units with distance, depth, angles and stability of the door, temperature of the water, plus a clump sensor for double distance, four SuperCatch sensors with filling indicators, two flow and symmetry sensors with mounting kits and a pair of Trawl Eyes with batteries and mounting kits, with four chargers for each trawler.
Speaking to Scanmar's Artur Shchukin, Yuriy Glushchevskiy who sails as radio and navigation equipment master on board Murmanseld2’s 6000hp Mirkah, said that there’s a simple reason why they went back to Scanmar for the new trawlers.
“We have very long and positive experience with Scanmar equipment and all of our vessels are using Scanmar and have been very satisfied with its performance,” said Yuriy Glushchevskiy, who trained at the Maritime College in Murmansk before a career on a variety of trawlers operating in Norwegian waters, the Barents Sea and across the North Atlantic.
Mirakh relies on its Scanmar electronics to monitor the performance of its Alfredo 5, Selstad 520 and Selstad 634 demersal trawls worked with Cobra and Sparrow trawl doors. Murmanseld2’s new 5200kW trawlers are designed for single and twin-rig trawling with a trip length of 20 to 30 days.
