Photo: Samherji

Compact fish meal plant is on-board Berlin. This is the second freezer trawler equipped with the on-board HPP Protein Plant. It recently sailed on its maiden fishing voyage from its home port of Cuxhaven in Germany. Berlin NC 105 is a new vessel, owned by DFFU, a subsidiary of Samherji in Iceland. Berlin is a sister ship of Cuxhaven NC 100, also owned by DFFU and launched last year.

Compact fish meal plant on-board

On board Berlin is a HPP Protein Plant 2000, with a 24-hour capacity of 50 tons of raw material. The HPP Protein Plant makes fishmeal and fish oil production at sea more economical and efficient than previous equipment would allow. This enables the fishing vessels to fully utilize all raw materials to return valuable products.

The two sister ships, Berlin and Cuxhaven, are Rolls-Royce designed NVC 374 WP (wave piercing) vessels, built to specifications in line with the experience and needs of the operator. Two additional trawlers of the same type will be built over the coming months for Samherji’s subsidiaries. They will all be equipped with HPP Protein Plant solution. The ships are built in the Myklebust shipyard in Norway.

The equipment on the new freezer trawlers includes an array of gear from Icelandic manufacturers, in addition to Rolls-Royce machinery. In addition to the HPP solution on sea, the navigation equipment, graders, lighting equipment, filleting machines and processing decks are manufactured or supplied by Icelandic companies.

HPP Solutions at Sea

The first HPP Solutions at Sea is on board the freezer trawler Sólberg, which started fishing last fall. The plant’s performance has exceeded expectations and reports on the production in the first months will be published on this website shortly.

The Rolls-Royce NVC 375 WP is an 81 m stern trawler developed for fuel-efficient operations by introducing wave-piercing hull design, an HSG machinery system and a Promas propulsion system.

Photo: Samherji

Its main engine is the Bergen B33:45 L6P, developing 3.600kW. The B33:45 is the most powerful engine in its class, offering 600 kW per cylinder in a compact engine design. It sets a new industry standard concerning fuel efficiency, low emission and low life-cycle cost.

Berlin’s sister ship, Cuxhaven NC 100.