• The world fishing fleet state according to the FAO

    The nutrition of the human has made fishing an essential practice and consequently has been the origin of the naval construction. This sector has been able to contribute in each moment f history solutions that have covered the needs of the fishing industry.

    In recent years, the fishing sector is facing big challenges due to a demand for greater profitability and performance, in addition to obey the different regulations regarding respect for the environment in all its aspects. To meet these challenges, the sector has reduced direct costs as the number of employees and has also been benefited by the price of fuel.

    As for the challenge of being more environmentally friendly, the gases such as CO2 and NOx have become a growing problem in a global perspective. To reduce these emissions, many governments plan to replicate land-based emissions taxes on emissions from ships in their fishing activities.

    While steps are being taken in the above mentioned, legislative changes are taking place regarding the specifications of fishing vessels, such as in the European Union, which foresees in the middle of the year 2017 to adopt a new regulation that grants to the Commission European competence to adapt the requirements for determining the continuous power of the engine to the technical developments and possible changes in the international ISO standards.

    World capture fisheries and aquaculture productionAccording to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in its latest biennial published report on the state of world fisheries and aquaculture (SOFIA), estimated that in 2014, there were 4.6 million fishing vessels, with Asia and Africa being the regions with the highest number of registrations, since they account for 90% of the total number of vessels worldwide.

    From a technical point of view, according to the same FAO report, 64% of registered vessels are engine-powered, an increase of 7% compared to the previous report for 2012. This report also states that in 2014, approximately 85 per cent of the world’s motorized fishing vessels were less than 12 meters long, and these small vessels dominated in all regions.

    In terms of capacity, and if we focus on Europe, the EuroStat Service estimates that in 2015 the European Union had a combined capacity of 1.6 million gross tons and a combined engine power of 6.4 million kilowatts. It is also noted that almost one-fifth (18.2%) of the EU-28 fishing fleet is registered in Greece. In terms of capacity, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom had the largest fishing fleets, accounting for 53.9% of gross tonnage and 55.6% of engine power in 2015.

    There are positive data in the sector, such as the profitability of the sector. The European fishing fleet continues to be profitable, with net profits of 770 million euros in 2014, more than 50% above last year’s profits, according to the latest annual report prepared by the European Commission which also foresees record profits in the year 2016.

    In the case of Spain, it recorded a net profit margin of 16.5%, the third highest percentage in the EU, only surpassed by Slovenia (35.7%) and the United Kingdom (18.3%). Ireland, Latvia, Estonia and Portugal also had a profit margin of more than 10% in 2014.

    The outlook for fish and fisherie products trade by 2025, according to FAO, is also positive. Trade will continue to be high, driven mainly by increased consumption of fishery products, trade liberalization policies, globalization of food systems, technological innovations in shipbuilding, product development conservation, packaging and transport.

    All these data suggest that in the medium and long term the fishing fleet will continue to grow or will need to introduce elements of innovation in the existing fleet. Therefore, the naval sector has the opportunity to continue growing and providing added value to this sector with solutions that are more respectful of the environment and that can be applied to the current fleet, as well as the building of new ships according to the new demands of the ship-owners and legislative requirements in all respects.

    In this sense, Zamakona Yards has implemented the latest concepts of design and construction, as well as the most advanced technology in engineering and naval architecture in all the constructions, repairs and refit for the fishing vessels.

    If you want to read the full report of the FAO, you can download it here

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  • REPNAVAL starts the New Year with a full house!

    REPNAVAL, the shipyard, belonging to our group, Zamakona Yards in Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, has started the New Year in the best way possible, with a near capacity occupancy. What better way to start the year than with marvelous weather of 24ºC and multiple projects in our shipyard.

    We would like to thank our loyal customers for once again entrusting their vessels to us to repair and put into condition to return to sea again.

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  • Inaugural Ceremony for the Vessel “Guria” of the Nicra-7 Tuna Fishery

    ZAMAKONA SHIPYARD is the beneficiary of the confidence of the Prestigious Tuna Fishery, Nicra-7, and is delivering their new Tuna Freezer vessel, “Guria” at the Bizkaia Este dock of the Port of Bilbao. This Saturday, Astilleros ZamakonaS.A.

    Will hold the inauguration ceremony of the first of this innovative type of vessel for the Bermean Compoany. This act will be attended by representatives from both companies, the Port of Bilbao and authorities of the Basque Government. This vessel, the “Guria” is construction Nº 751 of the Santurce Shipyard and is a project of new design with the latest and most modern technology built to the specifications of this Bermean Shipowner. It has a length of 81 meters and a top speed of 16 knots thanks to its power plant of 5440CV. The crew is composed of 27 mariners to handle a capture capacity of 1708 m3 of tuna. The vessel will fish in the Atlantic Ocean. The company, Nicra-7, expressed their satisfaction on the construction of a new vessel for the first time at this shipyard and has said that it will not be the last, thanks to the degree of cooperation and the quality of construction received.

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  • Ocean Marlin, our newbuilding 722 has been delivered to Atlantic Offshore

    Ocean Marlin is the second vessel of three signed with Atlantic Offshore with HY820 design. She is now sailing to Stavanger and her naming ceremony will be next Wednesday, 13th August.

     

    The vessel has been constructed in our Yard of Pasajes with the following main particulars:

     

    Type Emergency Rescue and Response Vessel with Firefighting and DP2
    Length over all 66.80 m
    Length b.p 60.60 m
    Breadth moulded 16.00 m
    Depth to main deck 6,00 m
    Draught 5,40 m
    Accommodation 21 persons
    Notation DnV: +1A1, E0, SF, OSV-Towing, DYNPOS AUTR, FIRE FIGHTER –II
    Flag NOR
    Deck area 380 m2

    The results on sea trials have been better than expected, highlighting the low level of vibration and noise:

     

    Bollard pull 68,3 tonnes
    Free running speed 14 knot

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  • Zamakona Yards signed an agency agreement with Dolven Maritime Agency (DMA)

    Last week, Zamakona Yards (Canary Islands Division) and Dolven Maritime Agency signed a commercial agreement to promote the interests and goodwill of our company for work of repair and conversion of ships, offshore projects and fabrications of heavy structure.

     

    This agreement is non exclusive entrusted agent and it´s to represent our services in Norway for two years (extended automatically year by year).

     

    Mr Aage H. Dolven (Managing Director) declared “We are pleased to represent Zamakona Yards and since today I´m full time on this project, and busy calling and on E-mail every day”. Zamakona Yards expects to improve deeply our presence in Norway and Scandinavian markets with this new agency.

     

    Dolven Maritime Agency (DMA) is a Norwegian company who mainly is engaged in selling maintenance services to the merchant fleets in Scandinavia.

     

    DMA was started in 1997, and has been in the markets since then in various tasks like conversions, repairs and docking on world wide basis, other tasks has been inspections and follow up of sale and buying of vessels, as well as changing of flag, ownership, class etc.

     

    Contact Details:

    Dolven Maritime Agency – Aage H. Dolven

    Phone : +47 9001 8484

    Web: www.dmashipservice.no 

    E-mail: aage@dmashipservice.no

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  • Zamakona Yards signed an agency agreement with Atra Holland B.V.

    Last week, Zamakona Yards (Canary Islands Division) and Atra Holland B.V. signed a commercial agreement to promote the interests and goodwill of our company for work of repair and conversion of ships, offshore projects and fabrications of heavy structure.

     

    This agreement is non exclusive entrusted agent and it´s to represent our services in The Netherlands for two years (extended automatically year by year).

     

    Ms Aida J. Barnhoorn (Managing Director) declared “we are pleased to represent Zamakona Yards and look forward to a fruitful cooperation!”. Zamakona Yards expects to improve deeply our presence in The Netherlands with this new agency.

     

    Atra Holland B.V. was established in 1979. At that time the company exported ship-equipment to Poland for the many newbuildings in the 3 huge newbuilding yards.

     

    Atra Holland B.V. changed the activities after break-down of the Wall in 1989 and started to represent shiprepairyards for the Netherlands, the first ones were Polish repairyards. By the time more repairyards could be added to agency- portfolio; most of them came to us by means of promotional words of shipowners.

     

    Contact details:

    P.O. Box 1127 – 1270 BC Huizen – The Netherlands

    Phone: +31(0)35-6952722 – Mob: +31(0)6-54281682

    Web: www.shiprepairyards.com 

    Email: atraholland@atraholland.nl

     

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