Havyard to deliver world’s largest live fish carrier
Sølvtrans orders the world’s largest live fish carrier from Havyard. The world’s largest shall, in addition, offer the best fish welfare in the world.
The live fish carrier will be 116 metres long with a breadth of 23 metres. The vessel will be named Ronja Storm with fish tank capacity of 7.450 cubic metres of water, more than twice the amount of normal-sized live fish carriers. In addition, the vessel has capacity for carrying 5.000 cubic metres 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 litres 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-metre netpen while being treated simultaneously.
The large production of freshwater, in addition to cleansing facilities that provides for reuse of water several times over, ensure that the vessel can continuously carry out work at sea, without having to head ashore to refill water as frequently as other vessels have to.
Salmon are loaded into freshwater tanks where the fish swim around for three hours, while it can also be transported into a new netpen.
Ronja Storm is going to be fitted out for fish sorting, transport of slaughter fish and smolt, as well as having medication facilities. There is emphasis on stability and reduced noise levels on-board.
The world’s largest live fish carrier will cost just over NOK 500 million.
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.
