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Wonder if the rolling stirred up a lot of rubbish in the fuel tanks?
 
Both the Hildasay and Helliar had this trouble when they came from a sheltered route to WNA

Surprising large choice of nosh in da toon!

1 Weighbridge
2 Shetland Hotel
3 Grantfield
4 Skipidock
5 Olive Tree
6 New Chinese at card shop
7 Spice of India
8 Saffron
9 Magno
10 Mareel
11 Hays Dock (to be let)
12 Raba
13 Da Fort
14 Happy Haddock
15 Cest la Vie
16 Harbour Cafe
17 Peetie Shop
18 Havly
19 Dowry
20 String
21 Grand
22 Queens
23 Peerie Shop
24 Harbour Street Indian
25 Red Dragon or whatever they are now called
26 Great Wall
27 Faerdie Maet
28 Kveldrso
29 Unken Wagen
30 Fjara
31 Mainlands Burger Van
32 Kantersted Chinese?
33 Clickimin Centre
34 Harbour Fish and chip shop
35 Shetland Fudge Street shop
36 Islesburgh
37 Lerwick Hotel

Probably some errors, omissions or spelling mistakes?!
 

Surprising large choice of nosh in da toon!

1 Weighbridge
2 Shetland Hotel
3 Grantfield
4 Skipidock
5 Olive Tree
6 New Chinese at card shop
7 Spice of India
8 Saffron
9 Magno
10 Mareel
11 Hays Dock (to be let)
12 Raba
13 Da Fort
14 Happy Haddock
15 Cest la Vie
16 Harbour Cafe
17 Peetie Shop
18 Havly
19 Dowry
20 String
21 Grand
22 Queens
23 Peerie Shop
24 Harbour Street Indian
25 Red Dragon or whatever they are now called
26 Great Wall
27 Faerdie Maet
28 Kveldrso
29 Unken Wagen
30 Fjara
31 Mainlands Burger Van
32 Kantersted Chinese?
33 Clickimin Centre
34 Harbour Fish and chip shop
35 Shetland Fudge Street shop
36 Islesburgh
37 Lerwick Hotel

Probably some errors, omissions or spelling mistakes?!
 

If an MRI scanner is to be bought should it not be the NHS that pays for it?

Is there no scope to share some of the facilites already at Hays Dock, Small Boat Harbour or Boating Club?
 
Would think that buying a listed building sitting in the ebb when sea levels are rising is just going to be an ongoing liability for someone.
 
Far too many groups, clubs, churches, halls, organisations, etc with underused buildings.
 
If some of these groups got together and shared facilities, costs and maintenence, facilites would stand a better chance of surviving in the long run.

With three hostels in Lerwick sitting empty, could SIC look to generate some extra revenue by renting these out when not being used by students? Other areas appear to manage this. The cooncil are getting to have a large portfolio of empty buildings in da toon, might be good to try and use their brains to generate revenue instead of slapping the largest % rate rise on council tax again next year?

With three hostels in Lerwick sitting empty, could SIC look to generate some extra revenue by renting these out when not being used by students? Other areas appear to manage this. The cooncil are getting to have a large portfolio of empty buildings in da toon, might be good to try and use their brains to generate revenue instead of slapping the largest % rate rise on council tax again next year?

With three hostels in Lerwick sitting empty, could SIC look to generate some extra revenue by renting these out when not being used by students? Other areas appear to manage this. The cooncil are getting to have a large portfolio of empty buildings in da toon, might be good to try and use their brains to generate revenue instead of slapping the largest % rate rise on council tax again next year?

Sadly, it will likely prove that if external funding can't be found, something's going to give.
 
Current levels of subsidisation are clearly unsustainable at current service levels for either inter island ferries or the inter island flights and Tingwall airport.
 
Only thing that you can say s that they should have started on the tunnel programme instead of the last of the new ferries.

Pretty interesting statistics on here:
 
http://www.shetland.gov.uk/ferries/ferryoperationsstatistics.asp
 
Clearly a massive over capacity on all routes and a need for peak pricing.

Sadly, it will likely prove that if external funding can't be found, something's going to give.
 
Current levels of subsidisation are clearly unsustainable at current service levels for either inter island ferries or the inter island flights and Tingwall airport.
 
Only thing that you can say s that they should have started on the tunnel programme instead of the last of the new ferries.

Don’t suppose Trondra and Burra would want to go back to ferries again?

Da foosty old blanket in da window of da stage door canna be much o a bargain, been there for ages. Wish someen would buy it and take it away!

The council should not be having to buy any equipment from tugs, port radar systems or gas plants to service the oil industry as they are not experienced in these areas and should be concentrating on the core services they are required to provide. Best to franchise for out the whole port operation and any equipment they own to get a guaranteed risk free income. Jobs would be retained by the leasing company and if there are cut backs in staff, probably means the SIC were making a haulix of it, again

The council should not be having to buy any equipment from tugs, port radar systems or gas plants to service the oil industry as they are not experienced in these areas and should be concentrating on the core services they are required to provide. Best to franchise for out the whole port operation and any equipment they own to get a guaranteed risk free income. Jobs would be retained by the leasing company and if there are cut backs in staff, probably means the SIC were making a haulix of it, again

The council should not be having to buy any equipment from tugs, port radar systems or gas plants to service the oil industry as they are not experienced in these areas and should be concentrating on the core services they are required to provide. Best to franchise for out the whole port operation and any equipment they own to get a guaranteed risk free income. Jobs would be retained by the leasing company and if there are cut backs in staff, probably means the SIC were making a haulix of it, again

will they let out the hostels in the holidays to make money?

will they let out the hostels in the holidays to make money?

A bit disappointing what with the NAFC in Shetland that the boats are so heavily crewed by Ghanaians, Filipinos and Eastern Europeans. Are there not enough locals wanting to fish?

Probably best thing they can do in the short term is give free ferry travel to boats and landing collectors and let them use Ulsta or the community pier at Burravoe and get on with replacing or repairing asap. Altaire will likely be off again in 3 weeks time, so pier at Collafirth will be free then.

Look at the swell charts on magic seaweed for rough sea charts and see the Sound School lollipop man for spectacular waves when the schools start back.

Look at the swell charts on magic seaweed for rough sea charts and see the Sound School lollipop man for spectacular waves when the schools start back.

There's power at all the piers- and CCTV has been available for a long time for very little, so why not install this at all the piers. Enough folk sitting in harbour offices at Sullom and Scalloway to watch this to monitor landings. Surely more benefit than the provision of elaborate remotely monitored and updated sign telling cars sitting looking at the ferry they are catching will be leaving in 7 minutes?
 
If there was nobody on ferries collecting fares and nobody sending out council tax demands, don't think that there would be much appetite to fill up the council piggy bank when they have made such a lot of ass ups in the past and wasted hundreds of millions of pounds now with nothing to show.
 
If they are going to start cross examining every service they provide for profitability such as Tingwall Airport, all the ferry routes, all schools, da town hall, bus services, etc, would any of these wash it's face.
 
If SIC were to close down any unprofitable harbours and piers, would there be any open left open?
 
With NAFC being subsidised by the SIC at up to  £4.8m per annum. Part of what they have been doing is churning out figures of landings and their values by shellfish boats since it opened in 1993 for all to see. So why has it taken the SIC over 20 years to realise they are getting nothing near the proportionate dues they should have taken in. Why could they not see this ? Why did they need consultancy firm AB Associates to point this out? The SIC print out 'Shetland in Statistics' every year. Shellfish landings are detailed in this. Do they not look at their own information? Can they read? You wouldn't get a fleet of busses or taxis running around for 20 years before someone realised that maybe they should be getting an income from their services provided?
 
The SIC have completely failed here and as usual have demonstrated again that they have no commercial sense whatsoever.
 
Like the Sullom tugs, new AHS at the Knab, Sumburgh runway, Viking energy, White House, the Cluness Crossing to Bressay - no one is ever accountable for the continued string of haulix they keep being allowed to make. There is no fear by anyone, so the serial cock up entrepreneurs will continue their established pattern.
 
Businesses don't look to cut back to maintain services, they look to increase revenue and profitability. Landing dues have increased most years, but the penny never dropped that X % increase on nothing is still nothing. 
 
Whilst this is unbelievable, it is entirely believable.

Too busy farting around with rubbish at the street to worry about piers:
 
http://www.shetland.gov.uk/news-advice/PR-LitterMountainontheStreet.asp

It's no wonder S.I.C. has money to spend on piers, they have wasted:
 
5.5m Sumburgh runway

5.5m School at the Knab
 
7.2m Bressay Bridge
Viking Energy 8.9m
 
White House 7.3m
 
7m Bonxie

7m Solan
 
With nothing to show for it.
 
- and after a while of having 6 tugs, seems we now need just 3?:
 
http://www.scchambers.net/product/reference-35988/
 
But still need three 70 foot pilot boats at Sullom to take in 1 tanker a week.
 
£2 million pound upgrade to the port radar (again), but we need this as 2 radars x 4 tugs = 1 pilot boat = 10 radars is just not enough. Better not let them know you can get AIS for free to plot the tankers position. Likely a bit sore still that they lost the helicopter for watching them?
 
 
When the new piers came to Ulsta, the SIC left decent facilities for the local fleet, so what happened at the other side?
 
Best thing the boats can do is just use the ferry pier at Toft. It's 30 plus years of ferries steaming whilst alongside at the piers instead of putting out ropes and saving fuel that's buggered the old pier. Same thing happened to the pier at Sella Ness with the tugs. 
 
Da 1 million pound windows at da toon haa are now 1.7 million, about da same cost as a new pier.