GROAQUA DELIVERS 1000 TONNE FEEDING BARGE

GroAqua delivers 1000 tonne feeding barge. GroAqua in the Faroe Islands has successfully delivered a feeding barge with a silo capacity of 1000 tonnes to MOWI. The feeding barge will operate in one of MOWI’s salmon farming sites in the Faroe Islands.
With 16 feeding lines the 39 by 13 metre feeding barge is intended to optimise feeding by having one feeding line per cage feeding the whole farming site simultaneously.
Set up for remote operations, the feeding barge with significant wave height HS 5.5 is built for high-energy sites.
“We have been working closely with MOWI since the beginning of the project 11 months ago. Close cooperation with the customer is key to a successful delivery such as this one, and our goal is always to deliver our projects on time. Even though the time frame for designing and building this project was tight, we delivered the barge on time according to the contract,” says Ólavur Thomsen, barge project manager in GroAqua.
In this project, MOWI underlined the importance of minimizing environmental impact. The feeding barge will run on power from shore, and the equipment onboard is designed to reduce noise pollution to leave the nearby surroundings as undisturbed as possible.
The feeding barge was built in Poland by the GroAqua barge building division. GroAqua has its divisions in the Faroe Islands, Norway, Scotland, Poland, and Denmark, developing and manufacturing innovative technology and IT systems for the fish farming industry.