Ibercisa Breaks Into the Norwegian Market

Norway, one of the most technologically demanding markets in the fishing world, is practically closed to many foreign companies due to the fact that Norwegian shipowners rely on home technology. However, Ibercisa, from Vigo in Spain after many years of intense commercial activity has managed to break into this competitive market signing three important contracts for the supply of naval and fishing machinery for the Companies Volstad, REM and Andenesfiske and therey establishing a new precedent.

The machinery will be installed on board the trawler which the norwegian company Volstad is building in the Turkish shipyard Tersan, on the REM trawler under construction at the norwegian shipyard STX-OSV and on another trawler which Andenesfiske is building in Tersan. With this operation the Vigo based company will gain access to the most technologically demanding market in the fishing world and in which Ibercisa has been highly active commercially for over a decade, its efforts have now paid off with the delivery of this machinery.

With the introduction of electrical drive on its equipment, Ibercisa has become a market leader in this kind of technology which is cost saving both when building the vessel and when operating it later and reduces environmental hazards and contamination.

Ibercisa has supplied electrical split trawl winches with a drum capacity for 3,000 m Ø 34 mm or 3,400 m Ø 32 mm. and a nominal line pull from 49,5 t at 38 m/min. at first layer to 20,1 t at 93 m/min at 17 th layer. This trawl winches are driven by an ABB water cooler electric motor of 355 Kw - 600 r/m, 440 V – 50 Hz, controlled by frequency converter, mounted in vertical below deck. They have hermetical and splitted gear box based on three steps of pinion / crown helical type, all of them working in permanent oil bath by immersion; and the fixed drum specially reinforced with band brake differential type, hydraulically operated by means of a special cylinder with Belleville springs inside to brake with pressure loss.