Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A crude oil tanker, which passed about 100 nautical miles west of Shetland last week while on the way from Murmansk to Limboh in Cameroon, has been seized by French forces with the help of the United Kingom about 350 nautical miles south-west of Land’s End.

It has emerged that Blueshell Mussels was able to take delivery of its new 21 metre landing craft, named Bountiful, almost immediately since the vessel was already available in stock.

It is being recalled that the idea for the freight and passenger freight-flex-vessels, being built in China for the NorthLink routes and due to enter service in 2029, is not new.

Workers on the Alwyn North platform, 70 nautical miles east of Unst, along with those on the Elgin Franklin platform, east of Aberdeen are involved in a pay dispute.

The 257 metre floating production storage and off-loading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank has arrived under its own power in the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst.

There are a dozen support vessels in the Rosebank field to position, to anchor and to connected up the Petrojarl Rosebank, including the anchor handler Normand Saphire and the diving support vessel Deep Explorer.

In the first five months of this year, over 120 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway.