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Tag Archives: shipping
Pilkington link restored in reopening of Lochaline silica sand mine
Good news for Morvern has come in the news Continue reading
RYA says Kintyre Array should be withdrawn for safety reasons – and should we be open to nuclear?

The Royal Yacht Association (RYA) has written to Marine Scotland, raising a series of issues Continue reading
Campbeltown has prior case for offshore energy support services
Since the destruction of the Oban Bay Marine proposal to install a transit marina Continue reading
Maersk Baltimore coming out of Loch Striven today
(Regularly updated below) Baltimore had been scheduled to come out of Loch Striven Continue reading
Maersk Boston now leaving Clyde, Beaumont preparing to follow
(Regularly updated below) As we write – 16.05 18th June, Maersk Boston, having spent time under the attentions of tug Svitzer Milford, Continue reading
McGrigor calls for support for Argyll-Troon timberLINK shipping
Jamie McGrigor, MSP, now the Conservatives Holyrood Spokesman for the Environment, Continue reading
Sealand Performance leaves Loch Striven

This one was personal. There was a debt to pay. Sealand Performance, 25 year-old container ship owned by Maersk Line, Continue reading
Maersk reducing raft on Loch Striven

Maersk, the shipping line owning the six laid up container ships rafted in Argyll’s Loch Striven, is moving Continue reading
Highballs in Loch Striven

During 1942, Barnes Wallis, an aircraft structures designer with the Vickers-Armstrongs company, developed Continue reading









