Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Shetland Analytical Services, rebranded from Shetland Seafood Quality Control last year, has announced that it has become an employment ownership trust, with the business now owned on behalf of its employees.

In recent years, Optic Marine’s 99 metre dedicated fibre-optic cable-repair ship Cable Vigilance has repaired the sub-sea Shefa 2 cable both east and west of Shetland and east of Orkney. Now the Optic Marine Group has signed contracts with Ulstein Design & Solutions for the design and construction of two cable laying vessels, with delivery set for 2028.

The spring mackerel fishery is underway with Fraserburgh and Banff pelagic vessels landing at Lerwick. Of the Shetland pelagic fleet, the Serene and the Altaire have been at the fishing grounds.

The Rising North Festival has announced the Friday-night headliner for the festival in Augus as the band Pale Waves, formed in Manchester in 2014.

The directors of Living Lerwick are hosting a BID ballot launch event at Lerwick Town Hall this afternoon.

In Lerwick harbour, at Victoria Pier West for almost two weeks on arrival from Storasund, is the salmon farm delouser Eva Elisabeth.

With a US C130 aircraft arriving at Aberdeen airport with a crew-change for the 127 metre US coastguard cutter Munro, in the Aberdeen South harbour, discussions are underway about the crew on the 333 metre very large crude carrier Bella 1, renamed Marinera.