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Danger to shipping as Shetland Coastguard call for help

Posted on January 2, 2012 by newsroom

(Updates below) BBC Orkney and Shetland online news is reporting Continue reading →

Posted in Business, News | Tagged Argyll, BBC Orkney and Shetland, cages adrift, cost, environmental hazard, fish farm, Lakeland Unst Ltd, mature salmon, navigational hazard, salmon cages, SEPA, Shetland, Shetland coastguard, shipping, UNst | 14 Comments

Pilkington link restored in reopening of Lochaline silica sand mine

Posted on October 15, 2011 by newsroom

Good news for Morvern has come in the news Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Environment, North Argyll | Tagged Argyll, Ballachulish Slate Quarry, Lochaline, MOrvern, NSG Group, Pilkingtons, reopening, shipping, silica mine, silica sand, St Helens, Tarmac, Tennant and Co, Tilcon | Leave a comment

RYA says Kintyre Array should be withdrawn for safety reasons – and should we be open to nuclear?

Posted on February 24, 2011 by newsroom

Westport Beach Mull of Kintyre

The Royal Yacht Association (RYA) has written to Marine Scotland, raising a series of issues Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Kintyre, News, Renewable Energy, Sailing | Tagged Argyll, kintyre, Kintyre Array, leisure sailing, Marine Scotland, navigation, nuclear power, renewables, RYA, safety, shipping, tiree | 12 Comments

Campbeltown has prior case for offshore energy support services

Posted on November 18, 2010 by newsroom

Since the destruction of the Oban Bay Marine proposal to install a transit marina Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community News, Kintyre, Renewable Energy | Tagged Argyll, campbeltown, harbour development, Oban, offshore energy, services, shipping, turbine tower | 13 Comments

Maersk Baltimore coming out of Loch Striven today

Posted on June 21, 2010 by newsroom

(Regularly updated below) Baltimore had been scheduled to come out of Loch Striven Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Cowal, Loch Striven Ship Dump | Tagged Argyll, Baltimore, container ship, lay up, Loch Striven, Maersk, shipping, tugs | 5 Comments

Maersk Boston now leaving Clyde, Beaumont preparing to follow

Posted on June 18, 2010 by newsroom

(Regularly updated below) As we write – 16.05 18th June, Maersk Boston, having spent time under the attentions of tug Svitzer Milford, Continue reading →

Posted in Community News, Cowal, Loch Striven Ship Dump | Tagged Argyll, Clyde, container ships, lay up, leaving, Loch Striven, Maersk Beaumont, Maersk Boston, Portland, shipping | 3 Comments

McGrigor calls for support for Argyll-Troon timberLINK shipping

Posted on June 4, 2010 by newsroom

Jamie McGrigor, MSP, now the Conservatives Holyrood Spokesman for the Environment, Continue reading →

Posted in Events | Tagged Argyll, Arts & Culture, Ayr, Environment, Funding, government funding, shipping, timber trade | Leave a comment

Sealand Performance leaves Loch Striven

Posted on May 22, 2010 by newsroom

Still tied to the bottom

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

Posted in 51st Highland Division, Business, Loch Striven Ship Dump, News | Tagged Argyll, freight, laid up ships.Loch Striven, shipping, tugs | 16 Comments

Maersk reducing raft on Loch Striven

Posted on May 16, 2010 by newsroom

Maersk Loch Striven ship raft Copyright Rebecca Martin

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

Posted in Cowal, Loch Striven Ship Dump, News | Tagged Argyll, container ships, laid up, Loch Striven, Mission 2110, recession, shipping | 2 Comments

Highballs in Loch Striven

Posted on May 1, 2010 by newsroom

Courbet Marius Bar 3 Public Domain

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

Posted in Cowal, defence, History, Loch Striven Ship Dump, News | Tagged Argyll, Barnes Wallis, battleships, bouncing bombs, Maersk, shipping, World War II | 3 Comments

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