Fleet

Sanford owns and operates 13 deepwater vessels landing quality seafood year-round for people all over New Zealand and the world to enjoy. Our deepwater vessels land, process and freeze fish products at sea.

Our fleet is supported by a sophisticated shore-based support network, designed to ensure that Sanford continues to supply sustainable seafood produced to the highest international standards.

DEEPWATER VESSELS

Sanford owns and operates six deepwater fishing vessels. They are usually found around the Southern Ocean, on fishing expeditions for up to six to eight weeks at a time.

Sanford San-Waitaki

San Waitaki

The San Waitaki is a stern type deep-sea trawler and is currently configured to process product in Headed and Gutted (H&G) form. The vessel targets orange roughy, smooth oreo dory and black dory, and can be tasked to enter the arrow squid and hoki fisheries at short notice.

Call sign: ZMA3176

Beam: 13m

Length: 64m

Gross tonnage: 1,900 tons

Year built: 1990

Freezer hold: 940m3

Meal hold: 178m3

Accommodation: 50 crew

Sanford San-Enterprise

San Enterprise & San Discovery

San Enterprise and San Discovery are stern type deep-sea trawlers and have the ability to produce fillets (block and shatter-pack), H&G, squid tubes, fishmeal and fish oil. These products are processed, packaged and labelled to export standards, including the EU and US markets. The vessels target hoki, ling, hake, warehou and arrow squid.

San Enterprise

Call sign: ZMA3161

Beam: 13m

Length: 64m

Gross tonnage: 1,900 tons

Year built: 1990

Freezer hold: 940m3

Meal hold: 178m3

Accommodation: 49 crew

Sanford San-Discovery

San Discovery

Call sign: ZMA6201

Beam: 13m

Length: 64m

Gross tonnage: 1,899 tons

Year built: 1992

Freezer hold: 940m3

Meal hold: 178m3

Accommodation: 49 crew

The three sister vessels - San Waitaki, San Enterprise and San Discovery - were all built in the same yard in Norway in the early 1990s and extensively upgraded to Sanford's requirements in 1997 and 1999.

Sanford San-Granit

San Granit

At 67 metres long, the San Granit is the largest vessel of our entire fleet. It is the only twin trawler in our deepwater fleet, which comes with automated horizontal plate freezers and vertical freezers, allowing for large volumes of product to be processed quickly. The San Granit targets mainly hoki and squid.

Call sign: ZMSG

Beam: 14m

Length: 67.4m

Gross tonnage: 2,387 tons

Year built: 1989

Freezer hold: 600m3

Meal hold: 350m3

Fish oil hold: 25m3

Accommodation: 48 crew

Sanford San-Aspiring

San Aspiring

The San Aspiring was built as a combination bottom and surface longliner but is now only used as an automated bottom longliner. This vessel targets and Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea and around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Call sign: ZMGO

Beam: 12.2m

Length: 51.2m

Gross tonnage: 1,508 tons

Year built: 2001

Freezer hold: 725m3

Meal hold: 60m3

Accommodation: 32 crew

Sanford San-Aotea-II

San Aotea II

The San Aotea II is an automated bottom longliner. It targets ling in the Sub-Antarctic, Chatham Rise and off the coast of Southland for nine months of the year. From December through February, the San Aotea II goes fishing for Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea. Once the Antarctic toothfish season closes, a scientific survey is carried out to support the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

Call sign: ZM2534

Beam: 10.8m

Length: 46.5m

Gross tonnage: 1,079 tons

Year built: 1993

Freezer hold: 515m3

Meal hold: 100m3

Accommodation: 25 crew

Sanford San-Rakaia

San Rakaia

The San Rakaia is a stern-type inshore trawler.

Breadth: 10m

Length: 32m

Gross tonnage: 498 tons

Year built: 1997

Crew: 5

Total engine power: 1,051kw

SCAMPI VESSELS

Sanford owns and operate five smaller deep-sea trawlers that target scampi throughout New Zealand waters. All products are processed, frozen and packed at sea.

The Albatross II, Drysdale, Venture K and San Tangaroa go on fishing voyages up to six weeks at a time. Scampi is landed from the Chatham Rise, Chatham and Auckland Islands and delivered to our Bluff and Timaru seafood processing sites.

The San Aramand goes on fishing voyages up to four weeks at a time. Scampi is landed off the east coast of the Bay of Plenty, and the Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa coast, with most of the catch exported directly out of Tauranga.

Sanford San-Tongariro

San Tongariro

The San Tongariro was originally a stern-type inshore trawler that has been converted into a deepwater scampi trawler.

Breadth: 10m

Length: 32m

Gross tonnage: 498 tons

Year built: 1996

Crew: 5

Total engine power: 1,051kw

Scampi-Vessel-albatross

Albatross II

Call sign: ZM2675

Beam: 7.76m

Length: 24.97m

Gross tonnage: 143 tons

Year built: 1984

Product capacity: 35 tons

Accommodation: 6 crew

Drysdale

Call sign: ZM2842

Beam: 7.55m

Length: 24.9m

Gross tonnage: 222 tons

Year built: 1986

Product capacity: 35 tons

Accommodation: 6 crew

Sanford Venture-K

Venture K

Call sign: ZM2037

Beam: 6.4m

Length: 25.3m

Gross tonnage: 129 tons

Year built: 1985

Product capacity: 40 tons

Accommodation: 6 crew

Sanford San-Tangaroa

San Tangaroa

Call sign: ZMA2633

Beam: 8.10m

Length: 26m

Gross tonnage: 202 tons

Year built: 1984

Product capacity: 30 tons

Accommodation: 8 crew

Sanford San-Aramand

San Aramand

Call sign: ZMG3486

Beam: 7.5m

Length: 19.95m

Gross tonnage: 125 tons

Year built: 2000

Product capacity: 14 tons

Accommodation: 6 crew

FREEZER FLEET

Sanford’s deepwater and scampi vessels all freeze and pack the catch onboard as soon as it is landed. In Timaru, our joint venture San Won storage facility enables vessels to discharge directly into the wharf side coldstore.

FISHING PARTNERSHIPS FLEET

We contract well operated New Zealand fishing vessels to complement our own fleet, as it’s a sensible and economically viable way to catch some of our quota, given the variable and seasonal nature of some of our fisheries. We contract these vessels as part of our long-standing business relationships with Dong Won New Zealand Ltd, JAICO Limited and their parent companies based in South Korea.

The fishing partnerships fleet consists of four trawlers targeting mainly arrow squid, barracouta and other species. The fishing partnership vessels range in size from 55 meters to 59 meters long. They typically have a crew of 40 and stay out at sea for up to 35 days.