Back to Scotland, where yet another ferry is facing further delays. The MV Glen Rosa, which is being built at the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow, has been hit by another setback – despite already being six years behind schedule and more than £100 million over budget. Talk about incompetent, eh?
This isn’t the first fiasco that has hit Scotland’s ferry projects in recent years
It has emerged that when the ship’s funnels were removed for internal work, gaps weren’t sealed and as a result the ferry, er, flooded during heavy rain two weeks ago. More than that, it transpires that the funnels themselves were only initially fitted for cosmetic purposes for Glen Rosa’s late launch last year in order to make it look like the vessel was nearer completion than was actually the case. Parts then had to be subsequently removed to allow other integral components to be fitted. You couldn’t make it up…
This isn’t the first fiasco that has hit Scotland’s ferry projects in recent years.
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