Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Shetland Islands Council has said that there will be timetable changes in the coming weeks to the inter-island ferry services on Bluemull Sound and to Whalsay.

According to the independent climate-change think-tank E3G, allocating a portion of NATO defence spending to protect offshore wind infrastructure, and to protect subsea power and telecommunications cables, will secure the countries surrounding the North Sea against emerging security threats.

With the Lerwick Up Helly Aa one week away, there is a reminder of a number of other events taking place. Shetland Arts has a range of activities in Mareel in the lead up to the event and on the day.

Meanwhile the local food and drink organisation, A Taste of Shetland, has again teamed up with Realta Events Management to deliver a day of celebrating Shetland’s local produce.

White fish box landings: 3 boats landed about 900 boxes. Pelagic fish landings: Landing mackerel at Lerwick is the Fraserburgh Grateful.

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.