Norwegian vessel operator Napier has delivered the “Tautiki” to Mowi, a 70-metre processing vessel with capacity for 750 tonnes of salmon and a loading rate of 200 tonnes per hour.
According to Napier, the vessel is the largest salmon processing vessel built to date.
The “Tautiki” was constructed at Sefine Shipyard in Turkey and designed by Salt Ship Design. It is the second of two sister vessels built for Napier in cooperation with Mowi.
The vessel will operate alongside the “Tauroa” at Mowi’s Jøsnøya processing facility in central Norway, which opened in 2024.
Napier said the two vessels together more than double the processing and transport capacity previously available at the site.
“Never before have processing vessels of this type been delivered, capable of loading this fast and transporting this much salmon,” Napier executive vice president Jahn Helge Bjørnestad told industry publication Skipsrevyen.
He added that during working days one vessel would be continuously unloading at the processing facility.
Both vessels are equipped to bleed, kill and chill fish onboard before delivery to shore facilities. Napier said this reduces energy consumption at the processing plant, lowers ice use during transport and cuts water loss during road haulage.
The company also said the vessel design was intended to improve biosecurity and fish welfare while increasing logistics efficiency.
The “Tautiki” entered service shortly after arriving in Norway and is now part of supply operations at Jøsnøya, one of Mowi’s largest processing facilities in Norway.