The Faroese Minister of Fisheries and Natural Resources, Tórbjörn Jacobsen with Faroese singer Lena Anderssen and music composer/producer Niclas Johannesen at a cultural evening program during the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) in Brussels. With over 1600 exhibiting companies from 87 countries, the ESE is a major event that brings together seafood buyers and sellers from all over the world. We were there to deliver, fresh from the presses, a few hundred copies of the 2008 edition of our popular Faroe Business Report .
Congratulations to Hvalnes/Christian í Grótinum! Their new pelagic trawler Norðborg was launched at the Asmar shipyard in Chile in February and will be delivered later this year to replace the old Norðborg. The 84-meter ship will be the most sophisticated and versatile pelagic trawler in the world. And imagine a 2500m3 refrigerated fish room that can hold 1400 tonnes of frozen products of herring, blue whiting or mackerel. Read more about this amazing Faroese family company (see chapter Pelagic Pair Trawling with ‘Christian í Grótinum’ and ‘Norðborg’) in my book 