Council Leader welcomes ship to ship anchor application being dropped

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Council Leader welcomes ship to ship anchor application being dropped

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The Highland Council's Leader has welcomed the Port of Cromarty Firth's announcement that: "Due to higher priority projects the Port will not be pursuing the resubmission of our ship to ship at anchor application.". In 2016 Highland Council gave its comments to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on an application made by the Port of Cromarty Firth to request permission for ship to ship oil transfers from moorings close by the Sutors of Cromarty, within the Port Authority area. [Read Full Article]