Ferries

Island minister Paul Wheelhouse said the report did not fully reflect contractor Ferguson Marine’s ‘non-performance’ (Lewis McKenzie/PA)

Islands minister denies ferry procurement process was ‘catastrophic failure’

January 26, 2021

The first truck to arrive in Ireland from Wales under new post-Brexit arrangements is checked at a customs post at Dublin Port (Niall Carson/PA)

Warning businesses to face sanctions for flouting post-Brexit customs rules

January 1, 2021

Irish Ferries’ ship Ulysses arrives at Dublin Port from Holyhead in Wales as new post-Brexit trade rules come into operation (Niall Carson/PA)

First ferries arrive in Ireland under new trade rules

January 1, 2021

The two vessels will now be delivered by 2022 and 2023 (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Ferguson Marine ferries contract ‘a catastrophic failure’, review finds

December 9, 2020

MV Glen Sannox

Former shipyard owner Jim McColl warns exodus of senior staff will sink ferry contract

February 23, 2020

Derek Mackay poses inside Ferguson’s after being nationalised by Scottish Government in August

Politicians say shamed Derek Mackay must still give evidence to stricken ferries investigation

February 9, 2020

The Glen Sannox at the yard

Former shipyard boss Jim McColl calls for public inquiry into ferry scandal

February 5, 2020

Glen Sannox

Islanders: We’ve missed cancer scans and lost £20m. We need these ferries, are losing all faith and deserve so much better

February 2, 2020

Jim McColl and Nicola Sturgeon, left, watch on after she launched the MV Glen Sannox at the Ferguson Shipyard in 2017

First Minister launched new Arran ferry at Ferguson shipyard with painted-on ‘windows’

September 8, 2019

The ships being built at Ferguson Marine (Chris Austin / DC Thomson)

REVEALED: Officials’ secret talks on moving troubled new CalMac ferries to different shipyard for completion

November 11, 2018

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CalMac ferry saga: Now passenger capacity to be cut on delayed new boats

August 26, 2018