Shetland Eyes in style Faroes for replacement ferries

The Prime Minister Farrera says that Shetland can increase growth and revive life on the island by following his country, replacing aging ferry on underwater tunnels.

The Shetland Islands Council states that it is promoting plans for the construction of tunnels on four remote islands in the archipelago, including UNST, the northernmost place in the UK.

“I think we learned in the Faroe Islands that the infrastructure investment is a good investment,” said Axel Johannesen BBC News.

The Shetland Islands Council states that its multi -million dollar project will probably be financed by borrowing money and paying them through a fee, potentially providing a new transport model for other Scottish Islands.

Critics say the politicians in Scotland spent years, talking about tunnels, while Faroes, nearly 200 miles away in the Atlantic, actually built them.

“It’s unpleasant,” says Anne Anderson of manufacturer Sassa Scottish farm, which operates nearly 700 people in Scotland, including just under 300 in Tetland.

Island Most valuable food exports With international sales of £ 844 in 2024.

“Ten years ago, Scottish salmon had previously had 10 percent of the world market. Nowadays, we are closing closer to five percent,” adds Ms Anderson, who blames that he partially slides at the absence of investments in public infrastructure.

She agrees that the UK should refer to the inspiration in Faare.

“Determine what works well for them, and then just copy and paste, and let’s move,” calls Ms Anderson.

Since the 1960s, they have been building tunnels in the headlight.

18 islands that make up a self -governed nation under the sovereignty of Denmark connected by 23 tunnelsFour of which pass under the sea.

More built.

The most dramatic is the tunnel 7.1 miles (11.4 km), which connects the stretch island with two sides of the fjord on the island of Eistaria.

This includes a single pitfall.

In the deepest place, it is 187 m (614 feet) below the waves and halved the time of movement between the capital Trshav and the second largest city of Klaxwick.

Speaking in his offensive office, looking at a busy harbor in Trshavne, Johannesen says that tunnels helped grow the population and economy of the archipelago, where about 54,000 people live, unlike 23,000 shetland.

“It’s about ambition,” says Tunal builder Andy Sloan, whose company worked in the “Farise” project.

He adds that the islands introduced the world “in the connection of the archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic through the blood, sweat and tears – and focus.

“They made a great infrastructure,” says Mr. Sloan, who is the executive vice president of the Cowi engineering firm.

He now advises the Council of the Shetland Islands on technical issues and financing tunnels.

The Pharus tunnels were built with the help of a technique known as a drill and an explosion – where holes are drilled in the rock, the explosives flow, and then the constipation is cleaned – which, according to Mr., can also be used in Scotland.

“Without a doubt, Tetland can copy what has been achieved in these islands,” he adds.

Professor Erica Anne Heifield, Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the University of Faroe Islands, says that tunnels have made significant benefits.

“People can live and bloom in smaller settlements,” while the full participation in life on the island and going to the “Central Labor Market” in Trshavna, she explains.

“In the long run, in terms of demographics, social stability, many people in the islands believe that it is necessary,” adds Professor Hefield.

But she said the costs for some tunnels were contradictory, and some trout claims that they were built at the expense of investments in schools and hospitals.

The main city of Shetland, Lervik, can be closer to Trshavna than to Edinburgh – and closer to Copenhagen than in London – but fans of the tunnels insist that the islands are not distant bulphs, but an advanced economy limited by poor infrastructure.

A archipelago of 100 islands on the North Sea merge and the Atlantic Ocean boasts The only UK Space Port and the flowering fishing industry.

“We plant more fish in Shetland than we do in all of England, Northern Ireland and Wales,” says Council leader Emma McDonald.

“Tunnels can be incredibly transformed,” she continues.

McDonald adds: “We are very excited.”

Na -Zazov Boom 20th Century Brought Shetland wealth But since then the islands have accepted the transition to renewable energy and reside in the UK The most productive on the bank of the wind farm.

“Tetland is really an integral part of Scotland and a wider Britain,” says McDonald.

The Council allowed the study of the technique -economic justification of £ 990,000 for four islands – Untst, Lult, Bressay and Whalsay.

He has not yet published the estimated construction cost.

“Tunnels will really open this island for business,” says Elizabeth Johnson, Saxavord Spaceport Foreign Affairs Manager.

She adds that they “increase the economic vitality of the island.”

But neither the Scottish nor the UK governments are voluntarily paid for the tunnels of Shetland, the model of financing borrowings paid by paid paid fences.

“I think people admit that there is probably a need for a fee, and I think people understand it,” says McDonald.

She adds, “They already have to pay to go for ferries.”

Currently, the Council conducts ferry services to nine islands, transporting about 750,000 passengers a year 12 at a cost of £ 23 million a year.

The average age of the fleet is 31.5 years, the costs have increased dramatically over the last decade, and some routes are trying to meet the demand for the place of cars.

Hebrid and Claid Ferry, in the west of Scotland, run by the Scottish Government Caledon McBin, are also aging and were Connected by issues.

Mr Sloan says tunnels can provide more reliable transport ties for the west coast as well as on the northern islands.

“Honestly, it can be repeated in Shetland, not just Shetland, perhaps elsewhere in Scotland.”

D -Sloan agrees that the paid fee is the most possible financing option.

In 2004, after a long -term non -payment campaign, the payment for non -payment was canceled, and in 2008 was withdrawn on Fort and Tay Road Bridges.

But Mrs. Johnson, with Saxavord Spaceport, believes that Setlenders will be happy to pay her way.

“I don’t think no one I said will be against the paid ones,” she says.

Although there is no organized opposition to the tunnels in Shetland, some locals express concern about whether they change what it means to be an island.

Pat Burns rules the northernmost store on the British Islands, the last UST order.

At first she was not convinced of the tunnels, fearing that they would change the nature of the island life.

“I like the problems of trying to get from A to B,” she explains.

However, after many years of concern that the bad weather interrupts supplies for her store and seeing tourists because the ferries are full, she changed her mind.

“I used to be a little prudent,” she says, “I now understand that if the UNST does not get the tunnel, the task will be too big.”