Fabrication giant Harland & Wolff (H&W) expects to create at least 200 new jobs at Arnish, on Lewis, and 400 in Fife through a £270 million investment in its the Scottish shipyards.
The £700million to be raised for Scottish Government coffers through the ScotWind auction “must be used” for jobs and training, a trade union has urged.
“Convergence” is how Sir Jim McDonald describes the way that Scottish industry, ports and government have come together to get after the potential prize of ScotWind, and the burgeoning floating wind sector more broadly.
A leading union has accused the Scottish Government of being “deliberately misleading” after it indicated that Westminster was to blame for supply chain firms north of the border missing out on offshore wind contracts.