David Butler you exaggerate -Ferguson's are perfectly capable of building a rowing boat every 5 years for a bargain £100 million-if you doubt me ask Nicola .

@@ronnieince4568 she would pay that, then loose the paperwork and disown all responsibility. It’s going to be five years late as the propulsion is a new design.

@@donaldtrumpton6252 yes the shredder has been working.overtime. !!!

I'm not sure why a private shipyard failing to fulfil its contract obligations has turned into an exaggerated political witch hunt. At the end of the day, it was Fergusons who rushed construction and knowingly built the vessel to the wrong specifications so they could keep to schedule and keep claiming their "milestone completion payments" to pay off their debts. When it blew up in their face, the owners jumped overboard and left it to the government to waste time and money cleaning up the mess they created while using them as a convenient scapegoat.

@@paulheenan9098 Are you serious. It's not a witch hunt,, its just simply the SNP being completely stupid and ignoring every piece of advice from those who were in the know. They were so many red flags but of course they were ignored because the SNP wanted to influence the voters with the "good news: about the ferry contract. They deserve all the flak they get because they totally brought it upon themselves.

The don’t even know if the engines will run as they have been standing for so long. If they do run my bet is a lot of breakdowns.

@@donaldtrumpton6252 I absolutely agree. I'm pretty sure the longer they lie around gathering dust and corrosion , then it can only be expected that there will be more problems,,,, and no doubt more inquiry's.

Not sure about Hebridean Isles, but Caledonian Isles is being relegated to secondary vessel on the Arran route (replacing Isle of Arran) while there is talk about Hebrides moving to Oban to replace Coruisk as the secondary Mull vessel.

Expansion in ardrossan is difficult, as calmac don't own everything, clydeport does as well as the fact that ardrossan is a harbour rather than a pier. Another thing is that more ships are required on the service to take more people but it would mean that another linkspan could be useful as well as the fact that ships cant just get bigger for the service as the depth is far to little on the current linkspan, M.V. Isle of Lewis could never call there for the reason that her 4.19m draft can not fit in the pier depth but in the new one it might, the reason for this upgrade is not the terminal but the pier, and as a result a closer terminal and walkway is needed, we are lucky the old pier isn't getting destroyed.

So negative, I'm sure they have very valid reasons and the explanation below is one of them

TheScarwood i agree with u