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Another record-breaking cruise season is being predicted by Lerwick Port Authority, with nearly 100,000 passengers due to visit the isles over the next eight months.The arrival of the cruise ship Magellan on Tuesday will launch a cruise season in which five records are set to be toppled.Arou... Read more...
Lerwick Harbour is on course for record cruise traffic next year, with advance bookings currently at the highest level yet and 87 ships scheduled to arrive between March and October. (more…) Read more...
Lerwick Harbour has today welcomed the largest ever cruise ship to visit the isles, since records began in 1928.The Celebrity Silhouette made her maiden call at Lerwick today as part of a 14 night British Isles Cruise.This is the second time this year that the record for largest cruise ship... Read more...
The opening of the offshore season in northern waters saw specialist oil industry vessels return to Lerwick Harbour during April to support subsea development projects.This month also saw the first cruise ship of the year to the port for what promises to be a record-breaking cruise season.Le... Read more...
The first cruise ship of the year was in Lerwick Harbour yesterday – the Astoria stopped off en route from Skye to Faroe. (more…) Read more...
Next year should see a record-breaking cruise ship season, according to Lerwick Port Authority. (more…) Read more...
The first cruise ships of the season are scheduled to arrive in Lerwick Harbour on Wednesday – with 1,850 tourists on board. (more…) Read more...
The first visit by a cruise ship to Lerwick this year has been cancelled because of bad weather. The Discovery, en route from Norway, was expected to call in today. However, the sea conditions have put paid to the stop-over. Lerwick Port Authority chief executive Sandra Laurenson said the ship wou... Read more...
The first cruise ship of the season is due in Lerwick this weekend, over a month earlier than usual. The Discovery is expected to berth on Sunday for the first of three visits this month on special interest voyages between ports in Scotland, England and Norway. With capacity for 700 passengers, s... Read more...
The oil and gas industry has continued to take full advantage of Lerwick Harbour's expanded deep-water infrastructure which helped attract increased traffic in 2013. (more…) Read more...
Forty-nine cruise ships are booked to call at Lerwick before the end of September, with the increasing number of larger vessels now using the port including the first grossing over 100,000 tonnes.According to Lerwick Port Authority the total figure of 1,000,000 gross registered tonnes in a se... Read more...
The first cruise ship of the year is due to berth at Lerwick Harbour on Thursday at the start of a busy visitor season for the port.The Deutschland will dock at Holmsgarth with more than 400 passengers, en route from Bergen to Edinburgh.A total of 49 cruise ships are booked to call at Lerw... Read more...
The cruise ship season is almost upon us and JOHN WARD PHILLIPS reports on some of the interesting early arrivals.The season starts with the 22,496grt Deutschland on 14th May and ends on 24th September with Marco Polo at 22,080grt; with Shetland’s tonnage record set to be broken on the 9th Sep... Read more...
Next week marks the beginning of the annual cruise ship season. This year, former guide JOHN WARD PHILLIPS will be keeping us up to date with the ships that are coming and going and sketching out the history of some of the vessels. Here, as the isles prepare for the influx of tourists, he looks at t... Read more...
WITH the largest cruise ship yet to call at Lerwick Harbour due today the port will end the 2008 season on a high and on course for nautical milestones next year.The Norwegian Jewel, with more than 2,000 passengers on board, is on a repositioning cruise from Europe to the USA, as was the Sea Princ... Read more...
IT WAS a story of endings at Lerwick Harbour with many things that have made news over the last weeks and months drawing to a close as autumn arrives in earnest.Only two yachts arrived last week – a stark contrast to the height of summer when waters around the harbour were peppered with them.T... Read more...
LERWICK Harbour remains busy despite a slight tailing off in traffic now that the summer season begins to draw to a close.There has not been quite so many yachts visiting as in recent weeks but cruise ships are still arriving and oil-related traffic has remained steady.One interesting yacht whic... Read more...
THERE have been fewer yachts and cruise ships visiting the harbour this week as the summer draws to a close, although the harbour has still been very busy with other traffic.Around a dozen yachts visited, the furthest travelled being the Threshold from the USA, which arrived on Tuesday from Alesun... Read more...