Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

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.

The floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank, now owned by investment company Carlyle, 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.

White fish box landings. 8 boats landed about 2200 boxes.

The cruise ship at Mairs East is the 105 metre Greg Mortimar, arriving a day early from Kirkwall. Due later at Victoria Pier East is the 91 metre Sea Spirit, arriving from Unst. Both are expedition cruise ships.

A study of the the areas where purchasing power has fallen the most since 2020, has found Shetland doing better than Orkney, although not everyone in Shetland would have fared so well.

Since Monday, a Roadmaster spray-injection patching-truck has been spotted back in Shetland for its nineth annual visit.

Meanwhile this year’s, previously mentioned, surface dressing programme is scheduled to get underway on Monday.