Full article The Conson Group plans to invest in an aquaculture armada consisting of 50 such ships with a gross tonnage of 100,000 tons each, which are expected to annually produce about 200,000 tons of fish
Construction of the world s first 100,000-ton large-scale fish farming ship started in Qingdao of East China s Shandong Province on Saturday, pioneering a new mode of industrial farming with “movable fish farms” on distant seas.
Funded by the state-owned Qingdao Conson Development Group Co, the vessel, named Guoxin No.1, is expected to be delivered in March 2022 and will conduct fish farming far from China s shores, supplying near limitless farmed fish without polluting the environment.
2020-12-21 10:05:21 GMT2020-12-21 18:05:21(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
QINGDAO, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) Construction of the world s first 100,000-tonnage smart fish farming ship has started in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.
The aquaculture ship Conson No.1, which is 249.9 meters long and 45 meters wide, is expected to be delivered in March 2022, said Dong Shaoguang, deputy general manager of Qingdao Conson Development Group, an investor in the construction project.
With a water body displacement of 130,000 tonnes and a design speed of 10 knots, it can move to avoid typhoons, red tides and other types of severe weather and disasters, and carry out aquaculture operations in global waters, Dong said.