Specialist police officers are being drafted in from the mainland to escort convoys of Viking Energy windfarm components to the construction site.
SSE Renewables and Vestas said the first convoys would start on Monday, 6th February, and run until the end of July.
They will operate three a day, six days a week, with the journey time between Lerwick Port to the Viking site in Central Shetland estimated at around an hour.
More than 400 convoys of Viking Energy components planned over six months
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