Weekly update, 25th Sept & 2nd Oct
25th
Sep,
2017
Tourism, Food and Drink: • Last weekend saw the staging of the annual “Taste North” event organised at Ackergill Tower by Venture North with support from a range of organisations including CNSRP partner the NDA. Despite the less than ideal weather, the event attracted a record number of visitors (around 1,000), and a range of […]
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Weekly update, 18th September
18th
Sep,
2017
Energy & business services: • The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm development will see the arrival next week of the first of two crew/ equipment transfer vessels to support the construction of the offshore infrastructure for BOWL. The catamaran vessels (Seacat Intrepid and Seacat Courageous) will be on a 2 year contract to BOWL from Seacat Services, […]
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Weekly update, 11th September
11th
Sep,
2017
Energy & business services: • The UK Government’s department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) this week announced its latest round of awards through the “Contracts for Difference” mechanism, in which there was mixed news for area projects. The Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) development consented for the Moray Firth – received an award, whilst […]
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Weekly update, 4th September
04th
Sep,
2017
Tourism, Food & Drink: • The final two cruise ships of the 2017 season visited Caithness this week, with the Braemar and Amadea each docking at Scrabster harbour. It has been particularly good this year to see the efforts being made to provide a welcome to those visitors not taking conducted onshore tours who choose […]
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