Posts Tagged ‘Solvtrans’
New super-sized wellboat delivered to Sølvtrans
Sølvtrans, a major global supplier of wellboat services to the aquaculture industry, has taken delivery of a new super-vessel. The 77 metre long Ronja Evolution (pictured) has been handed over by Norwegian builders Aas Mech and is the seventh vessel it has on order for Sølvtrans. This latest vessel has a capacity of 3,000 cubic…
Read MorePG Flow Solutions wins wellboat pump contract
Norwegian shipbuilder Aas Mekaniske Verksted has awarded PG Flow Solutions a contract to deliver pump systems to three wellboats that the shipyard is building for wellboat company Sølvtrans. Norwegian pump and liquid handling specialist PG Flow Solutions will deliver eight of the company’s large seawater circulation pumps, which ensure continuous seawater circulation in the boat’s…
Read MoreChanges at the top for land based salmon farmer
THE land based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution has elected a new chairman from its latest and biggest shareholder, Ronja Capital. Tore A Tønseth is investment vice president at Ronja Capital, the investment company owned by the Sølvtrans wellboat entrepreneur Roger Halsebakk. Ronja Capital bought a 19.6 per cent share in Salmon Evolution last week.…
Read MoreWellboat pioneer invests in land based
SØLVTRANS founder Roger Halsebakk has jumped on the land based salmon bandwagon, investing in Norwegian company Salmon Evolution. Halsebakk, owner of Ronja Capital, the world’s largest wellboat business, is the biggest new investor in the project, which aims to farm 36,000 tonnes of salmon using flow-through technology. Salmon Evolution announced today that it had raised…
Read MoreNesvik returns to wellboat business
FORMER Norwegian seafood minister Harald T. Nesvik has landed a key job in the aquaculture industry less than a month after resigning from his cabinet role. He is returning to Sølvtrans, the world’s largest wellboat builder and the company he worked for before turning to politics. However, he cannot take up his post as communications manager at the…
Read MoreNorway seeks seafood minister to replace Nesvik
NORWAY looks set to get a new seafood and fisheries minister within the next 48 hours. The present incumbent, Harald Tom Nesvik said earlier this week he would step down, after his Progressive Party quit the Conservative led coalition government. The row centred on a decision by prime minister Erna Solberg to allow an ISIS terrorist…
Read More‘Gentle solution’ for new concept wellboat
A NEW wellboat, being billed as the world’s biggest and currently under construction in Turkey, is to be fitted with a Cflow fish handling system, it was announced today. The wellboat, commissioned by Norwegian firm Frøy Rederi and being built at Sefine Shipyards in Turkey, which is also Cflow’s contracting party, will be 83.72m long,…
Read MoreOslo names new fisheries minister
HARALD Tom Nesvik, who has written extensively about the seafood industry, was named as Norway’s new fisheries minister today. He replaces Per Sandberg who resigned following intense political pressure since taking a holiday in Iran last month with his new Iranian girlfriend. Sandberg has been under fire for the past two weeks, not as a…
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