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Fish farming vessel Havfarm. (Image: NSK Ship Design)
World’s largest ship to operate as a salmon farm in 2020
(NORWAY, 10/18/2018)
Aquaculture company Nordlaks announced it has started the construction of a semi-catamaran, which the firm ensures will be the world’s longest vessel by length, to be finished by 2020.
The vessel, called Havfarm1, is a gigantic moored fish farm platform that will be built by Chinese yard CIMC Raffles. It has a 430-metre long hull and will be located at a site south-west of Hadseløya, Norway, an area that Nordlak says has been impossible to use for aquaculture up until now, Maritime Executive reported.
According to Nordlaks spokesperson Lars Fredrik Martinussen, the firm is on track to begin operations with Havfarm in the second quarter of 2020.
The facility is designed to hold up to 10,000 tonnes of salmon at a time, divided into six separate mesh pens of 50 square metres by ten metres deep. The structure is built for wave heights of up to 10 metres and can be raised an additional four metres if needed during foul weather.
When installed at its offshore anchorage, Havfarm will have much more area in which to disperse the waste products associated with fish farms. It will also be more resistant to sea lice infestation than conventional installations, according to the Norwegian firm NSK Ship Design, in charge of the vessel design.
Nordlak signed an agreement with Chinese yard CIMC Raffles to build Havfarm1 in February and obtained 21 licenses from the government of Norway for the project.
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