Skretting Norway last week announced it began phasing in the option of silo-silo feed deliveries in June.
The method involves is loading the feed from a silo at the company’s Averoy, Norway, feed plant into silos on a delivery vessel and then directly into customers’ storage silos with no bags involved. The technique increases operational efficiency at the feed mill and the transport efficiency of the vessel, while reducing the need for plastics and the time involved with unloading the feed at customers’ farms.
When operating at full capacity, the new purpose-built boat, the Eidsvaag Polaris, will save the production and use of 275,000 plastic bags annually while delivering 130,000 to 150,000 metric tons of feed.
“Skipping the bag filling and emptying process saves time and energy. It also dispenses with the need for forklift trucks to move feed bags into and out of storage and onto the boat,” said Viggo Halseth, managing director of Skretting Northern Europe, Australia and Japan. “Together, these changes add up to greater efficiency and a smaller CO2 footprint per [metric ton] of delivered feed. Silo-silo feed delivery is a further step forward in the efficiency of fish farming, and once again Norway is the pioneer.”
