PIRIOU Delivers 'MORNE BLANC'

80 m tuna purse seiner ‘MORNE BLANC’ has just left PIRIOU premises in Nha Be, Ho Chi Minh Ville in Vietnam, after being delivered, in time, by PIRIOU VIETNAM to SAPMER. The vessel began her fishing campaign and will meet her home port in the Seychelles by end July.

SAPMER takes therefore delivery of its 9th tuna deep freezer after the first 7 units of 90 m were delivered between 2009 and 2013, and ‘MORN SESELWA’, prototype of a new 80 m series, in December 2014.

Pascal Piriou, CEO of the group, declares: ‘MORNE BLANC is the last scheduled delivery to date for the SAPMER tuna fleet. Originally designed to be operated in the Pacific Ocean, she opens new markets and we now expect advanced contacts with Asian shipowners materialize’.

A ‘multiocean’ tuna purse seiner

Designed by PIRIOU INGENIERIE and identifiable by her new design, this 80 m tuna purse seiner is a multipurpose ‘all oceans’ vessel intended to operate in the Indian Ocean but also, thanks to options, in the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean.

Features:

•a slightly inverted bow improving sea-keeping behaviour, performances and crew comfort
•several unloading possibilities
•a platform above the wheelhouse roof
•a Diesel-electric propulsion with highly economic energetic performances

Main characteristics

Length overall……. ……………………………..79.50 m

Moulded breadth….……………………..…..….14.20 m

Dry holds (storage @ - 40°C)………………….1040 m³

Brine wells (storage @ -17°C)………………..…480 m³

Fuel capacities.………………………..……..…...490 m³

Crew ………..……..………………………..…40 p.

Speed………………………………………..15.5 kn

Propulsion……………………………..1 x 2800 kW

Genset………………………………..4 x 1160 kVA