Saint-Petersburg-based Severnaya Verf laid a keel Nov. 23 for the first of six freezer factory trawlers ordered by the Russian whitefish giant Norebo Group.
The vessel is named Captain Sokolov and scheduled to be commissioned in 2020 for Murmansk-based Rybprominvest JSC, a unit of Norebo.
Another five trawlers are to be delivered to Norebo’s North-West fishing companies Karat-1 JSC, Alternative JSC, Karelian Seafood JSC and Murmansk Region Fleet JSC in three to six months.
“The new builds are state-of-the-art freezer factory trawlers, using advanced technologies of fishing and non-waste fish processing," Sergey Sennikov, a spokesman for Norebo Group, told IntraFish.
