Bluewild, Ulstein Design & Solutions AS and Westcon have been awarded Ship of the Year 2023 in Norway for the innovative factory trawler ECOFIVE, under construction at Westcon for fishing company Bluewild.
The new vessel has an overall length of 73.20 metres, and is packed with new thinking and innovation, in some instances applying technology carried over from that used in fish carriers and land-based processing. The design aims to handle catches in an ultra-gentle fashion, taking the contents of the codend on board beneath the waterline and holding

