The UK’s first all-electric powered workboat will be built in the Western Isles in a move that will create 25 jobs and boost the local economy.
It follows an agreement with Stornoway Port, which will see a leading Devon company relocate to build a range of vessels at a new marine engineering facility at Goat Island.
The move means shipbuilding will returning to the Western Isles for the first time in more than a century.
