Montrose Port Authority (MPA) has become the first port in Scotland to provide a groundbreaking shore power service for offshore energy supply vessels which will greatly reduce harmful emissions, noise pollution and fuel consumption. The innovation takes MPA closer to reaching its ambition of becoming Scotland’s first carbon neutral port. Plug Montrose, is the result of a pioneering £1 million Read more...
May 3, 2024
MPA Leads Scotland’s Ports Sector Towards Emissions Reduction with Shore Power Facility Launch
Montrose Port Authority welcomed Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP, for a visit last week on Wednesday 10th April. Ms Hylsop received an overview of port operations, recent business growth in renewable energy and substantial investment in port infrastructure — including the soon to be launched £1 million Plug Shore Power project, which will see Montrose become the Read more...
April 18, 2024
Transport Secretary visits Montrose Port for update on port’s strategic importance to renewables sector
Montrose Port Authority welcomed local MSP for Angus North and Mearns, Mairi Gougeon, on a visit to its site last week where she received an update on how the Port is continuing to build on its reputation as the major support, logistics and service hub for the North Sea energy sector and general cargo markets, as well as a leading Read more...
July 19, 2023
Montrose Port Authority talks “going for growth” with local MSP Mairi Gougeon
A former RNLI lifeboat has been saved from the scrapheap by a Stirlingshire farmer. Farmer Martyn Steedman, attracted international interest with his family’s conversion of a retired Royal Navy Sea King Helicopter in 2016, offered the ageing lifeboat a new lease of life on his campsite in Thornhill, Stirlingshire where she’ll be transformed into a glamping pod. The 26-tonne Tyne Read more...
May 31, 2023
Lifeboat to become glamping pod after being saved from scrapheap
Montrose Port Authority officially named its new £800,000 pilot boat, South Esk, with an intimate quayside blessing on Friday 19th May at the RNLI Montrose Lifeboat Station on the Port’s North Quay. In marine tradition, the boat was blessed by Montrose Sailors’ Society’s Port Chaplain, Peter Donald, along with the vessel’s godmother, Jane Stuart, who is married to Peter Stuart, Read more...
May 22, 2023
Montrose Port christens £800,000 pilot boat with whisky blessing
