Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Allseas double-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit left Prinses Alexiahaven in the outer reaches of Rotterdam harbour yesterday afternoon heading eventually for North Cormorant, 60 nautical miles north-east of Unst.

As you can hear in announcements, this afternoon into early evening, the dismantling company Brown & Mason are hosting a drop-in information event for people to find out about the upcoming arrival and decommissioning of the North Cormorant topsides at the Dales Voe Base and to meet the teams involved.

The new bus timetables announced in July by ZetTrans, the transport strategy partnership for Shetland, are now in effect across Shetland.

The drilling and blasting, along with some dredging, have moved back to the Lerwick north harbour while dredging by the Odin continues in Dales Voe.

There has been discussion in Faroe about the small mainly autonomous inshore fishing vessels being designed by Maidenfleet, based in Port Nelson in New Zealand.

White fish box landings: 2 boats landed 759 boxes. Pelagic fish landings: The Antarctic is landing herring at Lerwick.

NHS Shetland has lodged a planning application for alterations to the former Kveldsro House Hotel in Lerwick to ready it for use as staff accommodation. [LDRS]