A newly refurbished ferry has been delivered to provide additional capacity for operator CalMac Ferries on the west coast of Scotland. Purchased out of Norway in 2021 and renamed Loch Frisa, the ...

ISLANDERS have been hiring fishing boats and inflatables for essential journeys after only a third of sailings went ahead in February. It is claimed the islands' economy has been battered and ...

Resplendent in the famous Caledonian MacBrayne livery and proudly sporting both the Saltire and the Turkish flags, the MV Lochmor slipped quietly into the clear, warm waters of the Sea of Marmara on ...

SCOTLAND'S lifeline ferry network is in crisis ahead of the easing of lockdown with four vessels breaking down in the space of three weeks and a replacement freight service that can only take four ...

A long-awaited CalMac ferry has been launched at Ferguson's shipyard in Port Glasgow. Crowds cheered as the 3,000-tonne vessel successfully left the slipway, making it the heaviest vessel to have been ...

One of the oldest ferries in the CalMac fleet will be retired later this year after almost four decades of operation, as the Scottish operator phases out older tonnage and modernizes its service with ...

Shipyard workers are not to blame for the CalMac ferry fiasco and more new vessels are needed if services are to improve, a trade union has warned. The GMB said Scotland's ageing maritime transport ...

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A new plan from ferry bosses at CalMac will be a "catalyst for improvement" of services for passengers, Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop has said. The state-owned ferry operator is working with ...

Ferry passengers were put at risk of E.coli as they waded through leaking fish waste, operator CalMac has admitted. Concerns were raised by ferry officials in 2020 about stinking effluent seeping out ...