Lerwick’s famous Up Helly Aa festival has extra maritime links in its ranks this year with representatives of three trust ports participating in the activities today (Tuesday 28 January 2025). Guizer Jarl heading up the event, Lerwick Port Authority Chief Executive, Captain Calum Grains, invited Tom Hutchison and Alex MacLeod, his opposite numbers at Montrose Port Authority and Stornoway Port Read more...

Montrose is to house a skills academy which will offer courses on working in renewables. The new facility will, for the first time in Angus, bridge a gap between teaching and practice, supporting jobs and economic opportunities in the area by delivering practical experience for those looking to work in Scotland’s growing offshore wind industry. Receiving £1.25m of funding from Scottish Read more...

Montrose Port Authority (MPA) has achieved remarkable success at the prestigious 2024 Courier Business Awards, securing both the Transition to Net Zero Award and the coveted Business of the Year Award. The awards, run in partnership by DC Thomson and Henderson Loggie for the past 11 years, took place at the Apex City Quay Hotel and was hosted by Jackie Read more...

“An unique occasion in the history of Montrose as a shipbuilding centre was fittingly marked on Tuesday 25th February, 1925 and aroused great popular interest in the Burgh, when the naming of two passenger steamers built by the Coaster Construction Company for the Union Steamship Company of Vancouver, British Columbia was performed in the presence of a large company in Read more...