Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

BP is considering a sale of some, or all, of its remaining offshore assets around Shetland, mostly west of Shetland.

EnQuest, the current owner of the Sullom Voe Terminal, has released two tenders, each worth £25 million, to remove the topsides and jackets from its steel piled Kittiwake platform east of Aberdeen.

Shetland Arts has announced the successful applicants from the winter round of The Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards, a programme of small grant schemes.

Over 20 yachts will take part in the Shetland Race this year. The yacht owners had until last Friday to register but late entries will be accepted until the 1st of June for an extra fee.

The next two of the eleven cruise ship arrivals in Lerwick harbour this week are in port today.

White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 1100 boxes.

In a submission for evidence sessions, in June, of the House of Commons Scottish affairs committee, the international engineering consultancy COWI will make the case that the barrier to delivering fixed link tunnels in Scotland’s islands, including Shetland, is not engineering feasibility but instead it is political ambition and funding.