A total of 4.4 kilometres of tunnel infrastructure is being developed at Kvalnes, including inlet waterway, tunnel infrastructure below each pool, and outlet waterway. Only 50 metres of the outlet waterway and approximately 500 metres of the inlet waterway remain to be completed. In sum, this means that the tunnel construction at Kvalnes has already reached 85 percent completion, up from 73 percent in early September.

“We have already conducted small diameter core drilling all the way through in the outlet tunnel and this gave us the answers we were hoping for. As both the outlet waterway and tunnel infrastructure below the pools are close to complete, we can scale down the number of machines and equipment involved with tunnel construction at Kvalnes.  We are very satisfied with the progress of what is probably the most demanding workstream of the current build-out phase,” says Martin Rasmussen, CEO of Andfjord Salmon.

The waterways that are currently being developed are designed to support a future production of 40,000 tonnes of salmon at Kvalnes.

In this initial build-out phase, Andfjord Salmon is also completing four new pools, increasing total production capacity to 8,000 tonnes HOG by 2025, and developing a new harbour area.

The harbour area workstream has reached 58 percent completion, up from 42 percent in early September. Large rock boulders are currently being placed as foundation for the breakwater (Norwegian: Molo) that will protect the harbour against strong winds and seas. Excavated masses from the waterways and pool pit will later be utilized to complete the breakwater.

The concrete pools workstream has reached 45 percent completion, up from 12 percent in early September. Work on this workstream, which involves constructing four new pools, has been intensified in recent months and the solid progress reflects this.

Source Andfjord Salmon Group AS via NTB.