Across the North Channel, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney, MSP, has deemed the cost of the much-delayed newbuild CalMac ferry, the Glen Rosa, as ‘unacceptable.’
As IrelandLive reports, the 7,040-ton ferry under construction by the government-owned Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, was ordered as the second of twins hoped to serve the Firth of Clyde route between the mainland and the Isle of Arran.
A series of cost increases and delays at the nationalised shipyard, however, has turned the construction into one of the longest-running political scandals in the history of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
All this even after the leadship, the Glen Sannox, was itself considerably delayed, as it was supposed to enter service in 2018 but only took place just over a year ago.
