Norwegian Fish Feed Carrier Nearing Completion
16 January 2012NORWAY - The Norwegian fish farming industry is growing and in 2011 output reached approximately one million tonnes of fish, largely salmon and trout. As part of its environmental aims, BioMar has created a more environmentally friendly fish feed carrier which is nearing completion at the Tersan shipyard in Istanbul, Turkey.
The distribution of fish feed makes up an important part of the product. Distribution along
the Norwegian coast is largely by ship. Shipowner NSK Shipping AS is one of BioMar’s
key collaborators in this field.
In 2009, BioMar worked with ship designers NSK Design AS
on the development of a more environmentally friendly vessel for transporting fish feed.
The aim throughout has been to reduce the environmental impact associated with fish feed
distribution. The fruits of this work will now soon be harvested with the completion at the
Tersan shipyard in Istanbul of the MS Høydal, the world's first LNG-powered coaster. The
plan is that the vessel should be ready to load her first cargo of feed from BioMar’s
factories in Norway on 1 May 2012.
The MS Høydal will have a cargo capacity of 2200 tonnes of feed, making this the world's
largest operational fish feed carrier. Natural gas (LNG) propulsion will make the vessel
environmentally friendly and reduce emissions of NOx (nitrogen oxides) by over 90 per cent.
The project has received support from the NOx Fund. This fund is the product of an
agreement between Norwegian business and industry and the Norwegian Ministry of the
Environment aimed at reducing Norway’s emissions of NOx gases.
The collaboration between BioMar, Nordnorsk Shipping, Tersan and the NOx Fund
provides an outstanding example of how companies, organisations and public authorities
can work together to solve environmental challenges and represents an important step in
the direction of making the fish farming industry even more sustainable in the future.
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