Bore Bay News Today

A “SUBSTANTIAL” bid was recently placed for a ‘freight plus’ vessel to add extra capacity on the Northern Isles ferry service – but it was turned down. Staff from Serco NorthLink Ferries and CMAL, the Scottish Government company which owns ferries, even travelled to...

TRANSPORT Scotland says a freight vessel which docked in Lerwick at the weekend on a trip around Europe was previously deemed not suitable to provide extra cover on the NorthLink service. The Bore Bay was an unusual sight at the ro-ro pier at Holmsgarth on Saturday, stopping off...

PROMOTE Shetland is still collating viewing figures of its Lerwick Up Helly Aa live streaming but is confident it reached tens of thousands of people. A spokesperson for the service, whose role it is to promote Shetland as a place to visit and to move to, said it was hard to...

2021-01-06T10:41:00+00:00 Norway-based Sea-Cargo is revamping its liner services in the North Sea with updated transport routes, increased capacity and an enhanced fleet. Sea-Cargo’s services in the North Sea previously included connections between Western Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK using its fleet of ro-ro and general cargo vessels. These services have now been extended to include Sweden and Poland. A weekly transport route for rolling cargo between Poland, Sweden and West...