Kaliningrad-based Baltic shipyard Yantar on Aug. 26 delivered Leninets, the first in a series of three trawler-seiners to Kamchatka-based V. Lenin Fishing Collective Farm.

“The two other fishing vessels – Commander and Udarnik –are planned for delivery by the end of 2019," Sergey Mikhailov, a spokesperson for Yantar, told IntraFish.

The contract for the construction of three new builds at the Russian shipyard was signed in January 2016, with the overall volume of investment exceeding RUB 4 billion (€55.1 million/$61.0