Island Crossings

A last-minute ferry cancellation jeopardises an order of scallops worth £28,000 to a Barra shellfish company that is due in France in 48 hours, while an oyster competition is hotly contested. After a weekend of weather disruptions and technical faults on numerous major vessels on her patch of the Outer Hebrides, area operations manager Fiona Galbraith is juggling displaced people and provisions and working out how to keep the supply chain running.