The MFV Krossfjord are the biggest vessel in our fleet

The length is 50,59 meter

Gross tonnage of the vessel is 1449 Ton

The catching capacity varies from 300 ton up to 1000 tons/day

This all depends on weather as well as the nature. The norm is to catch not more than 300 ton at a time in the net. Sometimes the fishing is good. One single trawl can be 450 ton.

The fish is pumped from the net into the vessel and distributed into 9 separate holds on the vessel. These hold are cooled down with a RSW system.

RSW is the abbreviation for Refrigerated Sea Water. Clean sea water is cooled down with a refrigeration system on the vessel to a temperature of -1,6 °C

The fish are pumped into this cold water to keep it fresh until it can be processed at the land based Horse Mackerel Factory at Gendev

The vessel can carry up to 1200 Ton fish in the 9 holds.

The vessel is powered with a Wartzila engine

The power 6300 Hp

The maximum speed of the vessel is 17knots. (1 knot equals 1,853 km/hour)

Year build 1997