This 77 m long vessel is a freezer tuna vessel planned for tuna fishing by the fencing system and will have 18 tanks with a freezing capacity of approximately 1,500 m3

The contract for this new ship has been signed at the offices of the shipowning company in Madrid... will last for 19 months. The vessel shall serve in the fishing grounds which the company manages in the Atlantic Ocean.

The shipyard has many years of experience in the construction and repair of tuna vessels for national and internation shipowners as well as in trawlers equipped with state-of-the-art technology such as the recently delivered "Markus" for Greenlandic shipowners. The Calvo Group which currently manages 12 ships has relied on the capacity of the Vigo shipyard to increase the efficiency, productivity and comfort of its new fleet.

"The market for new construction of tuna vessels is certainly strategic for Freire, as these are highly sophisticated vessels where the capacity for coordination and quality are key to the successful implementation of these projects. We are very pleased to have achieved this contract for such an important shipowner at international level, and in addition to Galician origin, as Calvo with which we have been linked for more than 40 years." commented Marcos and Guillermo Freire, general directors of Naval Construction P. Freire.

Construcciones Navales P. Freire, is a family company located in the Northwest of Spain; it was founded in 1895 and four generations later, the family Freire, remains the only shareholder of the company. The construction of steel ships started in the 1960s and since then Freire has built more than 280 ships for more than 25 countries. The shipyard is currently dedicated to the construction of ships of high technological value up to 155 m long and is a global reference in the construction of modern ships, with state-of-the-art technology.