USA: Jensen Designed Commercial Fishing Vessel Achieves Construction Milestone

One of the world’s largest commercial longliner fishing vessels, designed by Seattle-based Jensen Maritime Consultants, has reached the important milestone of having the main deck completed ahead of schedule, only 10 weeks into the construction phase. This accomplishment is the direct result of Jensen having delivered a production engineering package that makes the construction and assembly more efficient.

This environmentally friendly longliner, named the Northern Leader and owned by Alaska fishing company Alaskan Leader Fisheries LLC, is currently under construction at J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Wash. Jensen’s design services to date have included the complete marine-engineering services for the vessel, from the concept design phase all the way through production engineering and 3-D modeling.

“Jensen is very pleased to bring its more than 50 years of naval architecture and marine engineering services to Alaskan Leader Fisheries and their new longliner project,” said Johan Sperling, company vice president. “It has been exciting to utilize our new in-house production engineering services to develop an excellent design and drawing package, which has made the vessel a pleasure to build and more efficient to construct. This longliner is a success in terms of its fantastic design and ease of construction – all of which are testaments to Jensen’s great work in designing all types of vessels.”