Severnaya Verf launched processing trawler of Project 170701 for Norebo Holding.

Severnaya Verf starts building a new processing trawler for Norebo

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 01:50 (GMT + 9)

Severnaya Verf Shipyard has held the launching ceremony signalling the construction project of processing trawler Kapitan Sokolov for AO Rybprominvest, a firm belonging to Norebo Holding.

The keel-laying ceremony was attended by representatives of the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo), governments of Saint-Petersburg and the Murmansk Region, Rybprominvest, Norebo, USC and Severnaya Verf, IAA Port News reported.

The General Director of Severnaya Shipyard, Igor Ponomarev, speaking at the ceremony.

The new ship is named after Vladimir Sokolov (1954-2015), famous polar fishing master, head of Murmansk Sea Fishing Port in 2007-2014, who later joined Rosrybolovstvo.

So far, Severnaya Verf shipyard has signed contracts for construction of six fishing ships, processing/freezing trawlers, for the companies belonging to Norebo Holding (Rybprominvest JSC, Karat-1 JSC, Alternative JSC Karelian Seafood JSC and Murmansk Region Fleet JSC).

Processing trawler Kapitan Sokolov project.

In summer 2018, the shipyard laid down two longline factory vessels -- Gandvik-1 and Gandvik-2 -- for the fishing fleet of Virma operating in the Norther Basin.

The Kapitan Sokolov is to be delivered to the customer before the end of 2020 and will be operated in the same area of the Atlantic Ocean.

Aerial view of Severnaya Shipyard in St. Petersburg. (Photo: Severnaya)

Severnaya Verf shipyard (corporate member of United Shipbuilding Corporation) is one of the leading shipbuilding companies of Russia’s defence industry. The company was founded in 1912, as Putilovskaya Shipyard.

Since then, the shipbuilding company has built more than 600 warships and commercial vessels, including cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers, patrol vessels and submarines destroyers, research and passenger vessels, timber cargo carriers, trawlers, container ships and Ro-Ro vessels, tugboats and floating docks. The shipyard’s backlog of orders currently includes the series of frigates, corvettes and other vessels.

With its head office in Murmansk, Norebo sells its products both in Russia and in the foreign markets.


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