BioMar’s new fish feed carrier, Høydal, is nearing completion, and should be ready to load its first cargo of feed from BioMar’s factories in Norway on 1 May.
The vessel will have a cargo capacity of 2,200t of feed, making it the world's largest operational fish feed carrier.
Høydal will be the world's first LNG-powered coaster. In 2009, BioMar worked with ship designer NSK Design AS on the development of a more environmentally friendly vessel for transporting fish feed, with the aim of reducing the environmental impact associated with fish feed distribution. Natural gas (LNG) propulsion will make the vessel environmentally friendly and reduce emissions of NOx (nitrogen oxides) by over 90 %.
The project has received support from the NOx Fund. This fund is the product of an agreement between Norwegian business and industry and the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment aimed at reducing Norway’s emissions of NOx gases.
The vessel is being built at Tersan Shipyard’s new premises in the Yalova region located in southern Istanbul, Turkey.
