Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

In the study of local authority areas where purchasing power has fallen the most since 2020, Shetland was 13th worst off in Scotland and 160th worst off across the UK, although Shetland did better than Orkney.

Shetland’s average salary-to-consumption ratio fell from 1.75 in 2020 to 1.58, leaving residents of Shetland with 9.4 per cent less purchasing power.

The Unite union, which represents offshore workers, has reached a union recognition agreement with EnQuest, operator of the Sullom Voe Terminal and the Magnus field 70 nautical miles north-east of Unst.

The long-awaited project to construct a new two-lane road from Gutcher to the Cullivoe Pier, which received the final go-ahead from members of the Shetland Islands Council last year, is making progress after getting underway at the beginning of last month. [LDRS]

The floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank is expected to leave its berth in Ågotnes in the island of Sotra in Norway in the coming week, or weeks, to head for its decades-long anchorage in the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst.

A cruise ship, the 216 metre Ambition, which was in Lerwick harbour last week, and is next due on the 17th of June and on the 19th of August, was cleared to berth and passengers allowed to disembark, after being held off Bordeaux during an outbreak of norovirus affecting 48 passengers and 1 crew.

The cruise ship remaining at Mairs East is the 105 metre Greg Mortimar, arriving a day early from Kirkwall to avoid the worst of the weather.