It isn’t entirely uncommon for strikes to make the stores look like this. I experienced it twice in the 19 years I lived there (I live in Denmark now), but this is probably the most extensive strike ever, so it affects gasoline and other things as well, which never happened before. As soon as the unions reach an agreement, everything will be back to normal in a couple of weeks. :)

Good luck, no fuel anywhere now , no bus service between airport and Torshaven.

My 2 friends and I are also landing on the 7th June

Gott aldrin kom vitt tíma ikki hava tærð

I’m Faroese (but I live in Denmark). I’ve followed the news and I don’t think the strikes will be over in 10 days. Bargaining has completely stopped for the time being, and it will take around 2 weeks at least to go back to normal afterwards, because there are only supply deliveries two times a week for food and such. They are currently talking about involving even more unions in the strikes as “sympathy strikes.”

I just arrived today (June 4) . I brought as much food as I could pack (pasta, bread, instant oatmeal, breakfast bars, crackers, instant coffee and prepard food (7-11 wraps) from the Copenhagen airport. The cottage I am staying in has a full kitchen. My Budget rental car came with a half tank of fuel good for 226 km, so I will only see about half of the Faroes as the service stations have no fuel for a refill. It is beautifull here and I am glad I did not cancel this trip. I hope this is helpful informaiton.

Hi! Yes I think the strike will be over. The locals said yesterday that the workers union should be financially able to sustain the strike for about six weeks. Of course I recommend you to keep looking for news!

Same as me I also same period to go Faroe Islands and worse is I most rely on public transportation. 😢

That is a bit good news for me. I hope they could settle the issue quickly. Thanks for your update

Thank you so much! That makes me happy and I hope everything goes better for all. I'm looking forward to visit my boyfriend and his family.

Hopefully, the strike will be over soon, BUT nobody other than the key personnel doing the union negations knows how long the strike will last. What locals guess is just a guess. Many things indicate the strike might end soon as preasure to end it increases, but at the same time much more indicates it might last way more than 3 weeks. Once the strike lasted 6-7 weeks. So it is just a guess when people predict it will end xx week.

Hi! I think you'll be safer not to come. I don't know if you were able to get the guarantee to have a rental car with full tank but it seems more and more impossible. Or you can have an electric car. Absolutely ALL the service stations are out of gasoline. The only ones from effo with a limited amount available are all on Suderoy island, you have to take a ferry to go there. We have decided today not to go to Suderoy as planned in our trip, because of the risk that the ferries stop when we are there. And we have food supply to cook until we flight back to Copenhagen. My advise at this point is not to come now until the strike is over. It will become more and more complicated here.

Yes electric cars are the better choice right now

Unfortunately, from what I see on ssl.fo the route 350 between Torshavn and the airport is not operating at all.

Thanks