Havyard to Build World's Largest Live Fish Carrier

 

The live fish carrier, to be named Ronja Storm, will be 116 meters long with a breadth of 23 meters. The vessel will feature fish tank capacity of 7,450 cubic meters of water, more than twice the amount of normal-sized live fish carriers. In addition, the vessel has capacity for carrying 5,000 cubic meters of freshwater.

 

After delivery, the ship will enter a 10-year contract for the fish farming company Huon in Tasmania, outside of Australia. Tasmania is short on freshwater both in terms of quality and availability. This is solved through equipment within the new Havyard design that can produce nearly 17 million liters of freshwater a day.

 

The freshwater will be used towards the “salmon hospital”. Fish are taken out of the netpens and will swim around in freshwater in order to fight the amoebaean gill disease AGD. In Tasmania, this happens roughly once a month. With the gigantic freshwater facilities and the enormous tanks, fish can be put in a 240-meter netpen while being treated simultaneously.

 

This is a great advantage and will reduce stress among the fish. As such, this ensures fish of higher quality while also improving fish growth, said Sølvtrans CEO, Roger Halsebakk.

 

Sølvtrans and Havyard have worked together on projects before, and this time Havyard Group becomes total supplier. Havyard Design & Solutions delivers design and engineering, Havyard Ship Technology will do the outfitting, Havyard Power & Systems delivers diesel-electric machinery and propulsion system, automation and bridge solutions, and MMC First Process will provide for everything connected to fish handling equipment.