The location of Bergfrost—next to the Cold Store Terminal between fishmeal and feed factory Havsbrún and freezing plant Pelagos—helps ensure efficient and effective operations, not least when dealing with charging or discharging vessels or reefer containers or handling pallets of frozen fish received via conveyor belt from the freezing plant.
Bergfrost’s latest expansion coincided with somewhat similar underground storage work taking place nearby for Havsbrún by the same main contractor. The excavated rock from both sites has been used for land reclamation in connection with ongoing harbor development in the Port of Fuglafjørður.
“We benefitted from the fact that the contractor was able to undertake both of these excavation projects simultaneously,” Mr. Sivertsen said. “It helped critical coordination between all of the parties involved, both with the tunnel excavation work and the harbor development.”
As well as providing landfill for Havsbrún’s ongoing harbor development, the excavated rock from the tunnels was used for the construction of an additional 80 meters of quay at Enni, between Pelagos and fishing gear developer Vónin, extending the continuous quay spanning from the Cold Store Terminal to 410m.
“This extension of the docking space means we and our next-door neighbors will be able to receive more vessels and thereby make it possible to further streamline operations and increase business activities,” Mr. Sivertsen said. “So indirectly, the Cold Store Terminal has been extended. With 410m in one stretch of quay, there will be less waiting time for ships as we can now have several port functions running simultaneously. So we can have three or four large vessels docked in a row—for example, one loading or unloading frozen goods at the Cold Store Terminal, one landing fresh catch at Pelagos, one taking fuel, and one receiving fishing gear.”
“We have been receiving some 100,000 tonnes annually, so on average the cold store has been filled to capacity four times a year,” Mr. Sivertsen added. “Now with a 40-percent increase in our cold storage capacity, the annual turnover is likely to increase more or less proportionally.”