The skipper of a Belgium registered beam trawler has today been ordered to pay a total of £2,345 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to offences under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (Colregs). Jeffry Demeester, the skipper of FV Deborah, appeared at West Hampshire Magistrates Court this morning. During the early [...]
Spanish shipyard Zamakona Yards has just been awarded a new contract for the construction of a tuna fishing and freezing vessel for the company Pesquera Miriam SA worth $ 35 million. The ship “LJUBICA”, 89.8 meters in length, is designed for Cintranaval-Defcar S.L. and will have a storage tank capacity of 2,000 m3. The vessel [...]
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Ten days after the removal of the ill-fated USS Guardian from the Tubbataha Reef, this time, a Chinese-flagged fishing vessel reportedly ran aground late Monday evening (April 8) along the northern part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Commodore Enrico Evangelista of the Coast Guard District Palawan said that based on the report given by [...]
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Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. announced that on March 29, 2013, O’Hara Corporation of Rockland, Maine signed a contract to construct and deliver one 194’ (59.13m) DNV Classed Freezer Stern Trawler Fishing Vessel. This new contract will be constructed from their ST ‐ 115 design furnished by Skipsteknisk, AS of Aalesund, Norway. The design dimensions and [...]
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At the session of the Sub-Committee on Stability, Load Lines and Fishing Vessels’ Safety held in February this year, focus was on international safety regulations. At the meeting, agreement was reached about the counting of fishing vessels and, thus, the adoption of the international safety regulations – the so-called Torremolinos Protocol – has come closer. [...]
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![Fishing Industry Urges Care Over Marine Protected Areas (UK)]()
The National Federation of Fisherman’s Organisations (NFFO), which represents fishermen’s groups, individual fishermen and producer organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has declared its support for the planned introduction of new marine conservation zones (MCZs) in UK waters, but cautions against a rush to designate over a hundred of them at a stroke. [...]
On 1th February Western Baltija Shipbuilding delivered new fishing trawler hull (NB58) for the Danish client “Karstensens Skibsværft AS”. Fishing trawler hull “ASBJORN SELSBANE” is 55,0 m length and 12,80 m width. Refrigerated sea water tanks (RSW) with the 500m3 capacity, have been mounted onboard. Hull weight is 880 tons (950 tons with pipes and [...]
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Two crew escaped from their 11-metre fishing vessel “Hunter” after it caught fire off Saltfleet Haven, near Mablethorpe. Yarmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre received a 999 call at 18.51 from the crew of two brothers after they had taken to the life raft. The Coastguard immediately asked the RNLI Inshore Lifeboat from Mablethorpe and the [...]
German flagged vessel MV Hanjin Geneva ran aground on a sand bar at the entrance of Prince Rupert Harbour, Port Authority reported yesterday. The 278-meter long containership was on its way from Busan, South Korea to Prince Rupert Harbour, BC. The accident happened when the 6,826 dwt vessel manoeuvred to avoid collision with a small [...]
Western Baltija Shipbuilding has delivered a hull of fishing trawler ROGNE to the Danish company Karstensens Skibsværft A/S on November 13th. Length of the trawler hull is 69.9 m, breadth – 14.2 m, draught – 4.9 m, speed – 16.5 knots, maximum number of crew – 12 people. This vessel is analogous to another fishing [...]
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