Tue 22 Apr, 2008
| Posted in: Lerwick Port Authority has started a £12m ($24m) port upgrade campaign to attract more offshore vessels and oilfield decommissioning traffic to the Shetlands harbour.
Lerwick is an important base for offshore vessels working west of Shetlands and a base for the growing North Sea decommissioning industry, but its facilities need to be improved to meet the challenges in the next decade.
Westminister Dredging will deepen parts of the harbour and create an extension to the Greenhead offshore...