The number of cruise ship passengers stopping off in Orkney has increased massively in recent years but the tourist invasion has not all been plain sailing. This year, 140 cruise liners will berth ...

It wasn’t Balfour Castle he wanted, it was Edinburgh Castle.” Orkney’s popularity with cruise liners with multiple stopovers, means visitors often arrive a little disorientated and are often unsure of ...

The Orkney Islands Council (OIC ... delineates a framework based on the dimensions of the maritime behemoths. Cruise liners are stratified into five distinct categories, each defined by the ...

Thirteen tonnes of frozen and tinned food was donated by a liner visiting Kirkwall When bad weather forced a liner visiting Orkney to cut its schedule short, leaving tonnes of surplus food, some ...